Re: Robocar--a decade away?

Ken from Chicago wrote:

> As far robocars dealing with human drivers, who brakes faster a human or

> ABS? or humans vs airbags? or humans vs a camera shutter? Human drivers 
> could be dealt with simply by raw brute machine speed and reflexes.

	Only if you assume the people (especially on a highway) space 
themselves out a LOT farther than normal. Because the robocar won't be 
able to set its own spacing; if it tries to allow actual stopping 
distance (even for a robot), a human will cut in. Humans don't 
actually allow stopping distance at all; on a busy highway, there may 
be only a car length or two between vehicles, which isn't NEARLY 
enough even for a robot to stop in.

	And if we start from the beginning (i.e., one robot car, all other 
cars human driven) the robot car has very little chance of 
understanding its environment nearly as well as a decent human driver.




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