Driverless Cars: Unsafe At Any Speed?

[David Horn]

(01-03-2023, 01:56 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Imminent collision: vehicle stops.

Driverless vehicles will mandate more divided highways complete with barriers.

The only valid use for autopilot on the road is on the high-speed multilane highways that have few possibilities of collisions. In other situations one needs an honest-to-God, alert person to drive the car or truck in the event that someone does anything other than follow some other course of driving (like making a left turn).

Is it possible to create a program that allows an automated vehicle to stop when (a classic warning in driver's education) a ball goes into the street? (The idea is that a child is likely to chase the ball, disregarding vehicles).

Today's best AI tech is the ChatBot.  They are designed to learn and, properly linked with other ChatBots, can share their learning directly.  This is the process that gets you where you wanted to be: capable of understanding even disjointed human behavior.   Assume the tech will migrate quickly to other uses, self-driving cars being one.