> By early 2015, Fairfield thought they were getting close: The cars were clocking full days at Google’s testing grounds without needing human takeovers. They had driven 1.2 million miles on public roads and could pull over for emergency vehicles. They could detect and brake for squirrels, and read hand signals from cops and construction workers. They knew when to honk politely (Just making sure you see me here) and when to blare it (You’re about to slam into me!). Then the team spent the next year putting another 800,000 miles on the fleet’s collective odometer, to fine tune everything. And it gave 10,000 rides to employees and “guests.”
The car-human interaction bit isn't from a quote, is there any evidence of this actually happening in the field? Would be great if there was a video or something.
You can see one example at the end of the video on their technology page where the cyclist can't make up his mind. It recognizes the left turn sign from the rider (you can see the sybmol change when he extends his arm).
This kind of predictable reactions to specific human gestures.. I fear it will have great uses for certain type of crimes. What will you do if someone stops you with the purpose of assaulting _for eg, a robbery_ you and the car refuses to run the dude over because he made a gesture and is now in front of your car while his buddies are waiting aside?
There are good reasons why things like these happened:
> The law of some states, such as Louisiana, explicitly lists a killing in the course of defending oneself against forcible entry of an occupied motor vehicle as a justifiable homicide.
While I'm interested in self driving cars that still feature manual controls you can override, like Tesla, I have no interest in a future controlled by Google's AI without my input.
> By early 2015, Fairfield thought they were getting close: The cars were clocking full days at Google’s testing grounds without needing human takeovers. They had driven 1.2 million miles on public roads and could pull over for emergency vehicles. They could detect and brake for squirrels, and read hand signals from cops and construction workers. They knew when to honk politely (Just making sure you see me here) and when to blare it (You’re about to slam into me!). Then the team spent the next year putting another 800,000 miles on the fleet’s collective odometer, to fine tune everything. And it gave 10,000 rides to employees and “guests.”