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Google’s driverless cars run into problems with human drivers

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needs to be better than me at what I want (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-09-12 03:59 (#M6X9)

What I want is speed.

For example, suppose you need to parallel park on the opposite side of the road. Normally you have to find a place to take a U-turn, then pull up ahead of the spot, then back in, and so on. It's slow and somebody might take your spot. A good robot car should be able to do that in one step, drifting into the spot.

Re: needs to be better than me at what I want (Score: 1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-09-13 18:58 (#MAZ0)

The tire companies will love you -- after a bit of drifting you will have to buy a new set of tires...

More to the point, estimating the tire-road sliding friction in advance is very difficult. The parking spot might have some oil leaked by previous cars. The last bit of that beautiful drift, into the parallel parking spot, will end by slamming up against the curb and breaking your car.

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2015-09-18 08:42 Interesting +1 hyper@pipedot.org

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