Taxi

[Chippy_Tea]

Would you trust a driverless car?

 

[Larse]

So long as it's not a Tesla.

 

[The Baron]

No I have seen Johnnie cabs

 

[MashBag]

I don't even trust the tw3tnav.

 

[MashBag]

I want a angry John Cleese voice on the controller.

 

[Graz]

I'd probably have more faith in this getting me to my destination in one piece than most of the mini cab / Uber drivers round our way

 

[Nicks90]

Totally. Half the Uber drivers round me are either Schumacher wannabes with non of the ability, or have questionable driving ability/valid UK licence
And for some reason they all seem to get away with cars with screaming brakes, juddering steering and horrendous bangs coming from worn suspension. Not bad when they're supposed to be MOT'd and scrutinized like hell as PHC

 

[JockyBrewer]

Honestly I thought we'd be further along with this stuff by now. If all cars were driverless then everything would work better and traffic accidents would plummet.

People in cities and towns could hail a car on demand rather than own a car, freeing roads from being clogged up with parked cars.

But I'm certain that if I got in the back of a Waymo like in that video I'd be quite freaked out.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

But I'm certain that if I got in the back of a Waymo like in that video I'd be quite freaked out.

Same here and i think they have a way to go before we are all convinced they are safe -

 

[Larse]

Same here and i think they have a way to go before we are all convinced they are safe -

I don't think they'll ever be capable of driving on every road around the world. They are too dependant on road markings and lane delineations. When they aren't present, they'll either stop like the one in the video or eventually crash.

 

[jof]

I don't think they'll ever be capable of driving on every road around the world. They are too dependant on road markings and lane delineations. When they aren't present, they'll either stop like the one in the video or eventually crash.

Not to mention dealing with potholes & roadworks.

 

[Larse]

Not to mention dealing with potholes & roadworks.

But Tesla think they can navigate all this safely with cameras.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

But Tesla think they can navigate all this safely with cameras.

Elon Musk promised in 2015 that Teslas would have "complete autonomy" "in two years". Seven years later, we're still waiting - Tesla won't release the data they have, but crowdsourced data suggests that they can only go an average of 84 miles before a "critical disengagement" (ie handing back to a human driver for safety reasons), whereas the likes of WeRide and Waymo can go ~200x that distance before a safety driver steps in, and Waymo had 1.2 million miles driverless.

So the question remains does Musk just not understand this stuff, or is he deliberately lying to inflate the Tesla shareprice? Probably a bit of both.