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Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing a Key Flaw

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one thing that i'm curious about is how autonomous vehicles will handle traffic jams. i think it was the washington post that had an article within the last 2 weeks discussing what an autonomous vehicle would have to do if they hopped on to 395 in DC and then had to get off at an exit a few hundred yards down on the left lane, 3 lanes over. that's not a lot of time and space.

of course, the logic there is that you *have* to make the exit, which most people subscribe to. instead of passing the exit and taking the next available one in order to make safer traffic maneuvers.

i see it all the time. hell, i saw it today when a van missed an onramp but decided it would be a great idea to try and merge from 0mph with traffic that's 60+. and the van was at a ~45degree angle relative to traffic. i honked at that dumbass driver fo sho since there's another ramp within a mile.
 
Technically it may not be the autonomous car's fault, but if the car was driven by a human then the accidents would be avoided because of the major behavioral difference. A common accident is when the autonomous car stops in the middle of a turn. Think about someone making a right hand turn off of a highway. Most human drivers slow down enough for the person to make it off the road, but if that person making the turn hits the brakes and comes to a complete stop then it would absolutely cause a lot of crashes over a period of time. Going 10mph under the speed limit all the time is a recipe for causing crashes. Having an incident level of twice a normal human means the autonomous car is to blame.

They have a major flow problem.
 
Fenixgoon said:
one thing that i'm curious about is how autonomous vehicles will handle traffic jams. i think it was the washington post that had an article within the last 2 weeks discussing what an autonomous vehicle would have to do if they hopped on to 395 in DC and then had to get off at an exit a few hundred yards down on the left lane, 3 lanes over. that's not a lot of time and space.

of course, the logic there is that you *have* to make the exit, which most people subscribe to. instead of passing the exit and taking the next available one in order to make safer traffic maneuvers.

i see it all the time. hell, i saw it today when a van missed an onramp but decided it would be a great idea to try and merge from 0mph with traffic that's 60+. and the van was at a ~45degree angle relative to traffic. i honked at that dumbass driver fo sho since there's another ramp within a mile.
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I see that all the time here in freeway-land. Better to be dead than miss the exit! 🙄
 
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