Intel Powered Self Driving Car Runs Red Light While Packed Full Of Journalists

Last week, Mobileye, the Intel-owned manufacturer of driver-assistance systems, announced it would compete in the race to create a fully driverless car, unveiling a fleet of prototype vehicles in Jerusalem that navigate city streets without the use of lasers or radars, which rivals have relied on heavily in tests.

A Bloomberg Businessweek reporter had an early look at the cars last month, during which a camera-only vehicle performed well despite heavy, chaotic Jerusalem traffic. But at a press event in Mobileye’s hometown last week, a car outfitted with television cameras from Israel’s Channel 10, went straight through a red light about a quarter of mile from the company’s garage after an otherwise uneventful ride.

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PUGPROUD - 5/23/2018 3:57:51 PM

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People have accidents all the time but that doesn't stop people from riding with you or you riding with them. There is an accepted level of trust between people that they will do the right thing behind the wheel. However with self driving cars it does seem (and I am one of them) that before I trust one with my life or the life of a loved one I will need to believe that self driven cars are flawless.

TomM - 5/23/2018 7:42:57 PM

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That's nonsense - there is no such thing as Flawless - with or without Self-Driving. THe fact is - HUMANS driving is the other alternative - and I have seen things in my lifetime with a human at the wheel that would curdle your blood.

Yes - it might be that YOU only are in cars with people who you trust to do the right thing - but even that does not mean they will in an unusual circumstance.

However - Since I do not believe that completely autonomous vehicles will be on the road that quickly - currently ALL states still require a driver in place just in case - that it really makes little difference to me.

zlives - 5/24/2018 2:37:18 PM

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the problem with current autonomous cars is that the human is the backup, who at a specific time of need maybe distracted because it is a human and not a single minded machine. a better backup scenario would be human driver with machine backup/overide.

MDarringer - 5/23/2018 7:48:36 PM

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It's time to take autonomous cars off the road until the technology catches up to expectations.

carloslassiter - 5/23/2018 8:50:52 PM

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It's time to take autonomous cars off the road until the technology catches up to expectations.
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Whose expectations? Yours? If so, no thanks. I've read enough of your comments in here - you sound like a guy who has never cracked a book but still thinks he's the smartest guy in the room.

MDarringer - 5/23/2018 8:58:25 PM

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Definitely not your expectations that it's OK for autonomous cars to kill its passengers and potentially other human beings in their destructive path.

As for education, I'm better educated than you are.

zlives - 5/24/2018 2:39:18 PM

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as long as the autonomous car-maker is held responsible same as a human, with SOMEONE going to jail for involuntary manslaughter, test away and gamble with everyone's lives.

EVisNow - 5/24/2018 3:01:39 PM

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MDarringer "As for education, I'm better educated than you are."

Another pissing contest ? looks like you are downwind.