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by gruez
1057 days ago
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>Oh, it's totally fine for me to deploy a multi-ton vehicle system with a "backup" operator that all human factors research reasonably tells us is going to be rendered unsafe by the levels of detachment induced by too good, but not good enough" levels of automation. Except in this particular case, the driver wasn't just zoned out, she was streaming Hulu. I don't think she was so lacking in free will that not having a stream on was out of her control. >Uber, apparently made the decision to deactivate the AEB system (likely because otherwise they couldn't convince anyone sane to ride in the car because they system wasn't ready). You're saying they disabled the AEB system, otherwise people wouldn't ride in the car? How does that make sense? |
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Their AEB technology had too high a false positive rate resulting in what a consumer would quickly coin "the perception of automated vehichle as deathtrap".
Once again, leading to "we must put something on the road now (despite it not being ready for prime time).