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by notatoad 3033 days ago
>trucks could drive themselves with a passenger trucker to intervene in tricky situations

this scenario has been mentioned a couple times in this thread, but if the automation isn't good enough to handle 100% of the journey 100% of the time, then it's really not good enough to allow the trucker to simply be a passenger. If the operator might have to take control in tricky situations, they can't be sleeping the rest of the time.
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stale2002 3032 days ago
Well, but what if it can handle 50% of the journey 100% of the time, and that 50% is known?

IE, for the 100 mile stretch of road in the desert, when it is sunny, it works great, and then when it gets to the city it tells the driver to take over.

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dsfyu404ed 3033 days ago
> If the operator might have to take control in tricky situations, they can't be sleeping the rest of the time.

A tricky situation for a computer is often not a tricky situation for a human. 99% of it will be the AI getting confused by things that are simple for humans (e.g interpreting detour signs).

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notatoad 3033 days ago
that doesn't change my point though: regardless of how easy it is for a human to respond to, they can't respond if they're sleeping.
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