(May 28, 2014 at 3:19 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(May 28, 2014 at 2:00 pm)ThePinsir Wrote: I wonder if they can recognize a child dart in the middle is the street...then stop in time. Seems like it should have an emergency brake or something.
Also, I can imagine hackers/cyber-douches can get people killed...
Recognizing a child darting into the street is one thing that I would suspect they've factored in. There's still stopping time - even taking human reaction time out of the equation, it still takes a finite amount of time to stop any vehicle.
I would bet that a darting kid would more likely be killed by a human driver then a computer driver.
Right now these cars are limited to 25 mph. I imagine a day will come when driverless cars are traveling at speeds over 200 mph in long trains of cars each drafting each other. I wonder if these make obsolete high speed rail.
