That includes taking evasive action if need be. I don't trust an autonomous vehicle to do the same, especially since they're very likely stuffed to the gills with sensors and reliant on some signal from who knows where. And what assurance do I have that some miscreant with ill intent will not try to hack such a vehicle?
I hesitate to admit it, but modern cars are better than me at correcting unwanted slides and rotations at slippery conditions. Part of the reason is that my control is limited to steering and speeding/ breaking all 4 wheels at once. The car though can control every individual wheel independently as needed - and likely much faster than I ever could. It is not a fair contest.
I similarly expect self-driving cars to become better than me at evasive actions. As above it has more control of the car and self-driving cars even add the steering. And unlike me it has full attention 360 degrees around the car at all times and with practically no reaction time. Computers are also very good at predicting where (several) moving objects will be and thus aim to avoid those. The self-driving cars might not be there yet, but I do think they will be. And probably before we know it. Widespread public use on the other hand I think is another matter - I suspect these costs plenty of money today.
And what assurance do I have that some miscreant with ill intent will not try to hack such a vehicle?
I think we can all be very assured that many of the most miscreant miscreants will indeed try to hack these vehicles. Anything from fairly innocent pranks via free taxi drives to serious offences. I assume that threat is taken seriously. On the positive side they are not running Windows at least. (As a side track US submarines has Windows.. that just doesn't sound right.
I guess just for office tasks.)
The technology with autonomous vehicles still has a very long way to go before they're ready for rollout on any sizable scale.
I think so too. But if they can realize the ambition, and not make new major problems in the process, then I think that is real progress.
The energy absorbing steering column was in widespread use before the air bag, and it made it far less likely that a front-end collision would result in a steering column impaling the driver.
These days they have airbags everywhere I look so not just the driver and not just impact from the front. There is even one under the bonnet of our car. In case of collision I suppose it will fling some pedestrian or hapless elk over the car instead of into the cabin? (I don't really want to find out!)
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