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Forum: General Talk
07-05-2018, 08:09 PM
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With an autonomous vehicle, we're exchanging human error for machine error. No one claimed autonomous vehicles are perfect and they too have issues but commit far fewer errors than humans so potentially are safer. With humans the error thing is different with each driver, some being much better drivers than others so errors are all over the map. Autonomous vehicles have specific errors they're prone to and many times, those errors can be erased in revised code, so the more autonomous vehicles are used, the fewer errors they will tend to commit.
As mentioned, autonomous vehicles are slaves to their sensors so there will be limitations on where and when they can function, but as sensors improve, so too will capabilities of autonomous vehicles. They already have sensors that can "see" in total darkness (at least what we see as total darkness), so that's one up on human drivers right there.
Autonomous vehicles are in the proving stage right now just as motorized vehicles were when horse drawn carriages were the thing.......... Let's see where it all takes us (well some people won't be taken anywhere in an autonomous vehicle).:D
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