Autonomous vehicles OK'ed in California.

[Urwumpe]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space...aunch_market_competition_and_pricing_pressurehttp://money.cnn.com/2017/07/29/technology/business/tesla-model-3/index.html

Of course, you should include the magnitude of the vertical scale there to estimate how reliable this statistic actually is. <20 is a pretty low sample size and you can see it well in the plot: Good and bad years are pretty extreme. Also the smooth plot hides that its actually discrete values. A bar plot would show some different trends there.

Also the selection of "other" is pretty poor, if you remember that SpaceX actually slowly takes over the EELV business for the Airforce. Would you create a "EELV" plot there for Atlas V or Delta IV, the "other" category would show a different trend.

 

[Col_Klonk]

Any 'professional software developer' claims his pedestal, is nothing more than an idiot... I'm sure the lawsuits will nail him to the cross... about time this happened.
:tiphat:

 

[RGClark]

Autonomous vehicles could reduce accidents with pedestrians to nearly zero.
One of the things I was surprised about is how hard it is to see pedestrians at night, especially if they're wearing dark clothes, and especially if they are off to the side. Pedestrians don't seem to be aware of this. They see these huge headlights heading towards them so they think you see them too. But your headlights only illuminate an area a few feet ahead of your vehicle, and very poorly to the side.
So in lieu of autonomous vehicles being fully in place, I think nighttime pedestrian illumination systems and automatic braking systems should be mandatory on all vehicles. Now, they are installed only on high end vehicles. But with mass production put on all vehicles that would greatly reduce the cost.

Driving a BMW with night vision proves illuminating.
Previewing technologies that make the dark less scary.
Last updated: October 20, 2014 11:30 AM
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro...th-night-vision-proves-illuminating/index.htm

Waymo CEO On Uber Crash: Our Self-Driving Car Would Have Avoided Pedestrian.
MAR 24, 2018 @ 08:24 PM
Alan Ohnsman , FORBES STAFF
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...lf-driving-car-would-have-avoided-pedestrian/

A disturbing fact also recently revealed is that the Uber self-driving system requires far more human intervention than the Waymo system:

SELF-DRIVING CAR SAFETY —
Leaked data suggests Uber self-driving car program may be way behind Waymo [Updated]
Uber’s self-driving cars need help from a human driver every 13 miles.
TIMOTHY B. LEE - 3/24/2018, 8:30 AM
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/0...-self-driving-car-program-years-behind-waymo/

Bob Clark

 

[Artlav]

Sounds like situations of the A and C class are actually hard for autonomous cars as predicted, give or take a dash of clip 4.