I've been wondering: why don't the self-driving car companies build a system that requires a person to drive it but assures the human can't crash the car? In other words, if the self-driving models predict that the human inputs will result in a crash it forcefully overrides the throttle, brakes, or steering wheel.
The sensation would be like driving one of those tracked cars at an amusement park. Try and slam the wheel hard to the right to steer into a guard rail? Computer would physically block it from turning past the point that you would leave your own lane.
This system would:
* force human drivers to drive the car 100% of the time
* allow real world testing and enhancement of self driving capabilities (data gathering, model backtesting, etc.)
* be strictly better than both fully automated and existing non-automated systems
We have the beginnings of this with the new auto-stop capabilities that are showing up in new cars. Why not build this hybrid system as a stopgap until full level 5 automation is working?
The sensation would be like driving one of those tracked cars at an amusement park. Try and slam the wheel hard to the right to steer into a guard rail? Computer would physically block it from turning past the point that you would leave your own lane.
This system would:
We have the beginnings of this with the new auto-stop capabilities that are showing up in new cars. Why not build this hybrid system as a stopgap until full level 5 automation is working?