The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) expert in intelligent transport systems and human factors believes that a road network full of self-driving cars will be far safer than today’s human-directed traffic, but what has him concerned is how to make the transition.
“We know that in over 90% of cases, crashes are due to human
error,” he says. “Theoretically, if we have a driverless car and the driver is
out of the loop, it means less crashes.
“In practice, it’s not
that easy, when we say the driver is out
of the loop it means the entire fleet will be deterministic and there won’t be
any errors.
“That is not going to happen as we face a transition period
of a mixture of automated cars, human driven cars and other road users like
pedestrians and cyclists who are not automated.
“That period worries me.”
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(The trouble is not the
car itself, driverless, electric of
otherwise, rather it is the idea from
which we are unable to escape; emotionally,
psychologically and physically. The idea
that the imagined good life evolves from
having unrestrained access to privately owned transport, in this instance a privately-owned motor car, is the
root of the trouble, a far greater worry than that alluded to by Prof
Rakotonirainy.
The “transition” he
refers to is small change compared to the inevitable change facing us within decades, and that is a switch
from privately owned cars and motorcycles
to some form of public transport – Robert McLean).
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