eyeing_see

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

These cars are driving on public roads, so the question is not whether the user is informed but whether they are compliant. It doesn't take many ignored beeps to learn that a particular customer is not using the feature as intended, and deactivate it for the safety of others. Offer to turn it back on after watching a trainig video at the dealer and signing some papers once, escalate to a mandatory counselling session after that, third strike and the feature is permanently off. Put it in the TOS so that asshole drivers can't sue and win in court. The customer should not be king when the safety of others is on the line.

eyeing_see

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Which safeguards are implemented to detect that rotation and modulation are taking place as intended?

eyeing_see

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

To add to your comment: GM's SuperCruise semi-autonomous mode uses a real-time head and eye-tracking system to ensure the driver is alert. I don't know if it's based on DL, but it's available in a production vehicle.

eyeing_see

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

On top of that, I think it is absolutely rational to expect autonomous cars to perform at the current state of the art. We tolerate certain kinds of bad human drivers, like beginners, because there is hardly an alternative. A self-driving car with the driving skills of a beginner would be completely unacceptable if the state of the art has skills comparable to, say, somebody with a few years of experience.

eyeing_see

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

And due to human vision being better than a dashcam, this car's emergency-assist system, the safety driver, could probably have caught this as well, if they had paid attention to the road.

Which is something that that production-grade technology can ensure with head and eye-tracking. Some non-autonomous cars have this feature to stop people from dozing off, and good semi-autonomous systems, like GM's SuperCruise will refuse to go into or stay in self-driving mode unless the driver is paying attention.

eyeing_see

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

It seems pitch black on a video, but human vision is much better in low light. You may have had way more time to react.

eyeing_see

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I think the point GP was making is that an attentive human driver may have been able to see the pedestrian much earlier than when she becomes visible on the video.

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