iCar iCan iCrash

[ztirffritz]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...st-vehicle

Bloomberg wrote:
On the afternoon of Aug. 24, Apple’s car was traveling at less than 1 mile per hour, while the car that rear-ended it, a Nissan Leaf, was moving at about 15 miles per hour, according to the report, which was filed by Steve Kenner, who works on Apple’s driverless tech project.

[testcase]

:facepalm:

[numbered]

There was a similar issue recently in Chandler Arizona with a Waymo.... the vehicles obey the law, while drivers not so much. In situations where you have to break the law to merge--which I see more of everyday--the robocars are gonna have problems.

The case here is that Lawrence is an expressway, not a freeway. There is no 'merge' (where both have to dance), there is yield. So the robocar is going to wait until it can enter. Humans will bull their way in, even if oncoming drivers have to brake.

[modelamac]

I always understood that expressways are limited access and are of two types: freeways and tollways.

[RAMd®d]

I've been on the Lawrence Expressway a few times.

Part of it feels like a highway/freeway and parts of it goes through the city as a wide surface street.

The only thing different that I can think of is that every entrance I've been on has its own lane onto the freeway, that may or may not eventually merger into the next lane.

At least one entrance has two lane that merge into one, but there's no typical acceleration ramp, since it doesn't take you directly into the existing lanes.