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0 pointsMBCook3mo ago0 comments

That’s clearly unacceptable. It needs to gracefully handle not having that fallback. That is an incredibly obvious possible failure.

Things go wrong -> get human help

Human not available -> just block the road???

How is there not a very basic “pull over and wait” final fallback.

I can get staying put if the car thinks it hit someone or ran over something. But in a situation like this where the problem is fully external it should fall back to “park myself” mode.

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JumpCrisscross3mo ago

> How is there not a very basic “pull over and wait” final fallback

Barring everything else, the proper failsafe for any vehicle should be to stop moving and tell the humans inside to evacuate. This is true for autonomous vehicles as well as manned ones–if you can't figure out how to pull over during a disaster, ditching is absolutely a valid move.

Wowfunhappy3mo ago

If the alternative is that the vehicle explodes, sure. And since GP did say "final fallback", I suppose you're right. But if the cars are actually reaching that point, they probably shouldn't be on the road in the first place.

The not-quite-final fallback should be to pull over.

MBCookOP3mo ago

Yeah. I wasn’t considering people, just getting the car out of the way.

I wasn’t considering people taking it as a given that any time the car gives up the doors should be unlocked for passengers to leave if they feel it’s safe.

And as a passenger, I’d feel way safer getting out if it pulled over instead of just stopped in the middle of the street and other cars were trying to drive around it.

No one should ever be trapped inside by the car.

torham3mo ago

They now apparently run these things on the interstate, the car needs to do more than just stop.

NetMageSCW3mo ago

How is it going to pull over at a four way stoplight intersection? Drive on the sidewalk?

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