Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by sangnoir 3462 days ago
> it's the first time in human history that we've had such skills available in a car autopilot

I doubt this assertion is true: lot's of cars with plain old cruise control can select a safe following distance and detect when the car ahead is braking. Roof-mounted LIDAR can see several cars ahead (and behind) and it would be negligent to to apply the same collision avoidance logic to car n+1