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U.S. guidelines on self-driving cars get good reception at G-7

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By YURI KAGEYAMA

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Bold move to ensure US companies can do as they like, get that many countries talking about it you are guaranteed that nothing will happen for way too long. Mean while Uber and other tech companies will blindly push ahead with their usual approach of if it makes money for us and isn't specifically banned it's legal, regardless of the moral or ethical consequences.

Good luck to Tesla with the "Improvements", machine learning algorithms are a "black box", humans do not know why the machine did what it did and the machine can't tell you. It is not like a normal programme where you can interrogate the code, there is not a detailed set of instructions like that any more.

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I don't think I will ever trust a self driving car!! Heck I have enough trouble with non-driving people who have no idea what what a turn signal is or how to properly merge!

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I have enough trouble with non-driving people who have no idea what what a turn signal is or how to properly merge!

Self-driving cars won't have that problem, so when people start using self-driving cars, you won't have to worry about that anymore.

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The first 20 years of self driving cars will result in millions of lost working hours. But at least people will have more time to check Facetube etc on their daily commute etc

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The first 20 years of self driving cars will result in millions of lost working hours.

How do you figure? Less traffic jams and accidents (that help contribute to traffic jams) goes down drastically which equals faster commute time to get to work on time. Plus people in commute can do their make up, take a nap, talk on their phone etc.

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Bold move to ensure US companies can do as they like, get that many countries talking about it you are guaranteed that nothing will happen for way too long.

So... you'd rather each country rushes with its own standards - causing the automobile industries to create dozens of versions of the same model for whichever country they're sold in and creating headaches for any owner trying to cross a border?

Mean while Uber and other tech companies will blindly push ahead with their usual approach of if it makes money for us and isn't specifically banned it's legal, regardless of the moral or ethical consequences.

If it isn't specifically banned, it IS legal regardless of whether it makes money or not. (and it's interesting the agenda you have against Uber)

Good luck to Tesla with the "Improvements", machine learning algorithms are a "black box", humans do not know why the machine did what it did and the machine can't tell you. It is not like a normal programme where you can interrogate the code, there is not a detailed set of instructions like that any more.

Tesla's problem is they still expect the humans to pay attention because their "Autopilot" is actually a "driver assist". The guy who died did NOT have his hands on the wheel and had his seat reclined. I imagine the only thing Tesla is really at fault for is naming their system "Autopilot". Today's flight management computers and autopilot systems could fly a commercial airliner from takeoff to a Cat III landing and the only thing the flightdeck crew would need to do is set speeds, flaps, radio frequencies, and spoilers. Tesla's "Autopilot" requires more interaction on the part of the driver. You can have your hands off the wheel for no longer than four minutes or the car slows, pulls off the road, and stops.

Heck I have enough trouble with non-driving people who have no idea what what a turn signal is or how to properly merge!

I wouldn't expect non-driving people to know those things.

How do you figure? Less traffic jams and accidents (that help contribute to traffic jams) goes down drastically which equals faster commute time to get to work on time. Plus people in commute can do their make up, take a nap, talk on their phone etc.

I imagine he meant that it's going to take 20 years (at LEAST) for the cars on the road to shift to mainly autonomous cars. Until then, people driving their own cars will cause accidents because they assume the cars around them will behave like human-driven cars (i.e. irresponsibly). Once EVERYONE is using autonomous cars, there still will be the "hobbyists" out there insisting on putting their muscle-cars out on the road on the weekends. (shades of Rush's "Red Barchetta")

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