Study: Autonomous vehicles won't make roads completely safe

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A new study says that while autonomous vehicle technology has great promise to reduce crashes, it may not be able to prevent all mishaps caused by human error.

Auto safety experts say humans cause about 94% of U.S. crashes, but the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study says computer-controlled robocars will only stop about one-third of them.

"We're still going to see some issues even if autonomous vehicles might react more quickly than humans do. They're not going to always be able to react instantaneously," said Jessica Cicchino, and institute vice-president of research and co-author of the study. However, the robocars may not be able to prevent the rest, including prediction errors such as misjudging how fast another vehicle is travelling, planning errors including driving too fast for road conditions and execution errors including incorrect evasive manoeuvrs or other mistakes controlling vehicles.

Just how many crashes are prevented depends a lot on how autonomous vehicles are programmed, Cicchino said. More crashes would be stopped if the robocars obey all traffic laws including speed limits. But if artificial intelligence allows them to drive and react more like humans, then fewer crashes will be stopped, she said.

 

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My envision that in the future. Seniors can ride autonomous vehicle to attend doctor's appointment.

They’d be a hackers paradise.

Anyone else noticing a sharp uptake in online fraud? My Pay Pal was hijacked and two days later I still haven't reached Pay Pal! And I bought Bose earplugs last month. Apparently they sent me 1000 1000 lbs... Possibly due to the Desjardins breach?

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