Why People Keep Rear-Ending Self-Driving Cars
 

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" Human drivers (and one cyclist) have rear-ended self-driving cars 28 times this year in California—accounting for nearly two-thirds of robocar crashes. "


" The people developing self-driving cars pitch them as a tool for drastically reducing the nearly 40,000 fatalities that hit US roads every year.

Getting there will take years at least, decades probably, and that means a lot more time spent testing on public roads.


https://www.wired.com/story/self-dri...&utm_source=nl



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I think self driving cars a ridiculous. You want to lower the number of accidents significantly, ban the use of touch screens in vehicles while the engine is running. The last three accidents we have been in have been because the idiot who rear ended us was playing with the radio. When they should have been watching were they were going.

This passage from the article sums up the problem of autonomous operated vehicles best:

... part of being a good driver is behaving in a way [other drivers] expect...

In San Francisco and the bay area, tailgating is a big problem. I'm waiting to see if autonomous cars will tailgate, and also how they will handle road rage.

Interesting article - since the autonomous vehicles obey traffic laws, for example not blowing red lights or accelerating through yellow lights, they get rear-ended by people who expect them to behave like human drivers do. Lots of room for improvement.
Tom

Exactly, until they teach the car NOT to obey the laws, it won't work.

At least until most of the humans are phased out of driving.

Working on the back of a highway paver and around traffic all day every day I could write a book on mindless baboons that have no business being behind the wheel. I would love to see this technology evolve to the point someday that would take these drivers out of the equation.