1.7 miles? I swim that far in a day, easily. Oh, 1.7 million miles – per the text of the article. Over 6 years implies about 300k miles per year. Twenty cars, perhaps? Or, did it start out with 5 cars and grow to 30, 40 or more recently?
I would like to know how many driverless cars were involved, not only the miles. And, where they drive; i.e. highways, city streets, suburbs.
It would lend some credibility to Googles’ claim if an independent party made the assessment of ‘fault’ in each accident.
Not enough data, not enough time elapsed, and not an independent opinion.
I did a double take too Yogi on the title of this article. Of course, the pro driverless car crowd will be much like the legalization of Marijuana crowd. They see no problem.
as I have said before, those of us that use computers all the time don’t even notice the number of “glitches” that occur daily with normal use. project those into a life and death situation where you are traveling in heavy, multi lane, fast traffic. I don’t feel comfortable with that glitch hitting me in my speeding car as often as I see it occur on my computer doing daily chores. it isn’t acceptable.
And I don’t feel comfortable with the other drivers on the road either. I may be willing to take my chance against a computer versus the poor drivers I encounter today. It will be interesting to see how far the technology can take us.
And what about Road Rage? Who will George Zimmerman shoot or get shot by in a computer road rage incident?
It would be interesting to see how these computer cars merge, like in L.A. or when an accident blocks a lane of a busy highway. Will it be better and more organized? Will the computers “talk” with each other and let cars in? There is a lot for us to learn.
1.7 miles? I swim that far in a day, easily. Oh, 1.7 million miles – per the text of the article. Over 6 years implies about 300k miles per year. Twenty cars, perhaps? Or, did it start out with 5 cars and grow to 30, 40 or more recently?
I would like to know how many driverless cars were involved, not only the miles. And, where they drive; i.e. highways, city streets, suburbs.
It would lend some credibility to Googles’ claim if an independent party made the assessment of ‘fault’ in each accident.
Not enough data, not enough time elapsed, and not an independent opinion.
I did a double take too Yogi on the title of this article. Of course, the pro driverless car crowd will be much like the legalization of Marijuana crowd. They see no problem.
as I have said before, those of us that use computers all the time don’t even notice the number of “glitches” that occur daily with normal use. project those into a life and death situation where you are traveling in heavy, multi lane, fast traffic. I don’t feel comfortable with that glitch hitting me in my speeding car as often as I see it occur on my computer doing daily chores. it isn’t acceptable.
And I don’t feel comfortable with the other drivers on the road either. I may be willing to take my chance against a computer versus the poor drivers I encounter today. It will be interesting to see how far the technology can take us.
I think those glitches will be less in number than human errors that cause car accidents.
And what about Road Rage? Who will George Zimmerman shoot or get shot by in a computer road rage incident?
It would be interesting to see how these computer cars merge, like in L.A. or when an accident blocks a lane of a busy highway. Will it be better and more organized? Will the computers “talk” with each other and let cars in? There is a lot for us to learn.
The title of article a bit misleading. 1.7 miles in the title, 1.7 million in the article. . . Bit of a difference.