Can The Self-Driving Industry HANDLE The TRUTH? Cause It AIN'T Pretty

This year's Automated Vehicles Symposium was thick with secrets and doubt. Eight years after Google first showed its self-driving car to The New York Times, the autonomous vehicle industry is still trying to figure out how to talk about itself.

In an industry built on eliminating human error, insiders have started to admit that building a flawless vehicle will be almost impossible. In fact, they are starting to admit that they need to start admitting it publicly.

TomM - 7/13/2018 3:33:44 PM

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clearly they forgot ONE thing

The cars and their software are made by Humans

Eliminating Human Driving error is not that easy when humans have so many variables.

dumpsty - 7/13/2018 4:43:36 PM

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Autonomous driving only works 99% confidently when the entire traffic dynamic is under some sort of computer control. Otherwise no one will be able to get reasonable insurance for a person driving/not-driving their driver-less car. Imagine that lawsuit.

I was the cars fault! I wasn't driving.

MDarringer - 7/13/2018 5:52:40 PM

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Miss Piggy in her Uber played that card.

MDarringer - 7/13/2018 5:51:43 PM

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Autonomous driving should be outlawed. Technology that makes the person with the hands on the wheel safer is all that is needed.

MDarringer - 7/13/2018 8:46:55 PM

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What's your budget?

MDarringer - 7/13/2018 11:14:24 PM

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Out of curiosity, what vehicle do you imagine yourself getting?

t_bone - 7/13/2018 8:50:46 PM

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I heard a great conspiracy theory that the "self driving" cars have actually been remotely controlled by human operators all this time. Whip up the stock prices and *maybe* get the software matured before anyone found out. I'd love this to be true!