Ten years later: How to avoid dying in a driverless car crash
Update your software frequently. Don’t use cheap firewalls, choose the more reliable ones.
Don’t use laptop or cell phone in the car, their electromagnetic frequencies may interfere with the car driving system. For extra safety, turn off the radio.
Don’t drive after rain or in fog. Water may get into circuits, causing hardware failure in a dangerous situation.
Don’t drive in the rain. A lightning close to you car may disrupt your GPS system or car driving system.
Don’t drive in the first snowy day. The optical recognition system may not be fully adjusted yet.
When crossing a time-zone boundary, be ready to manually override the car navigation in case of a software bug.
Avoid the roads with human drivers, cyclicts, pedestrians, or where animals appear. The software does not always recognize them perfectly.
What? Teleportation FTW!
Twenty years later: How to avoid dying during teleportation: Turn off your electronic implants, because their signals may interfere with the scanning device. Don’t teleport in a rainy day; a lightning in a wrong time may disrupt the data transfer. Etc.
Twenty years later: How to avoid dying during teleportation:
Adjust your philosophy as necessary such that the casual destruction of your physical form is not considered ‘death’. Then make damn sure the anesthetizing system is in good functioning order before you are put to sleep, scanned, sent and destroyed.
No! It seems to me that driverless cars will be under much heavier supervision than manual driven cars. Think airplane security. Any problem with the driverless cars will be seen as systematic and attacked. From what I read so far they are probably safer than human drivers already, but not perfect.
Can you clarify what your “No!” is meant to negate? The most natural interpretation of your comment for me is “It seems to me that [driverless cars won’t have fatal accidents because they] will be under much heavier supervision...”, which I think unlikely.
I mean that driverless car are safer than human driven cars. One factor being that they will be much more interest in all accidents they cause. I expect dying in a driverless car to not be a problem, since few people will experience it.
Cool, thanks for the clarifiication. I certainly agree that the number of deaths caused by driverless cars would be far lower than those caused by human-driven cars. I also expect that within a generation, that much lower number of deaths would be considered a problem.
I sometimes wish the care for the capabilities of Pilots would also be used for car drivers. Regular health checks, retests, training in critical situations. Building safe vehicles. Won’t happen.
It seems like if your car’s driving computer is capable of connecting to the Internet, it’s already badly designed.
I’d have to disagree. An optional feature to update a street database and possibly be notified of critical updates to the algorithm (when other modules are found to be killing people, say) seems like a wise inclusion.
Also, live traffic data to use the available road-space more efficiently. My GPS does that already, and will divert me around traffic jams when there are available side roads, but will stay on the main route when the side-roads as just as bad.
Driverless cars FTW.
Ten years later: How to avoid dying in a driverless car crash
Update your software frequently. Don’t use cheap firewalls, choose the more reliable ones.
Don’t use laptop or cell phone in the car, their electromagnetic frequencies may interfere with the car driving system. For extra safety, turn off the radio.
Don’t drive after rain or in fog. Water may get into circuits, causing hardware failure in a dangerous situation.
Don’t drive in the rain. A lightning close to you car may disrupt your GPS system or car driving system.
Don’t drive in the first snowy day. The optical recognition system may not be fully adjusted yet.
When crossing a time-zone boundary, be ready to manually override the car navigation in case of a software bug.
Avoid the roads with human drivers, cyclicts, pedestrians, or where animals appear. The software does not always recognize them perfectly.
What? Teleportation FTW!
Twenty years later: How to avoid dying during teleportation: Turn off your electronic implants, because their signals may interfere with the scanning device. Don’t teleport in a rainy day; a lightning in a wrong time may disrupt the data transfer. Etc.
Adjust your philosophy as necessary such that the casual destruction of your physical form is not considered ‘death’. Then make damn sure the anesthetizing system is in good functioning order before you are put to sleep, scanned, sent and destroyed.
And read the fineprint before using it.
No! It seems to me that driverless cars will be under much heavier supervision than manual driven cars. Think airplane security. Any problem with the driverless cars will be seen as systematic and attacked. From what I read so far they are probably safer than human drivers already, but not perfect.
Can you clarify what your “No!” is meant to negate? The most natural interpretation of your comment for me is “It seems to me that [driverless cars won’t have fatal accidents because they] will be under much heavier supervision...”, which I think unlikely.
I mean that driverless car are safer than human driven cars. One factor being that they will be much more interest in all accidents they cause. I expect dying in a driverless car to not be a problem, since few people will experience it.
Cool, thanks for the clarifiication.
I certainly agree that the number of deaths caused by driverless cars would be far lower than those caused by human-driven cars.
I also expect that within a generation, that much lower number of deaths would be considered a problem.
I look forward for that day.
I sometimes wish the care for the capabilities of Pilots would also be used for car drivers. Regular health checks, retests, training in critical situations. Building safe vehicles. Won’t happen.
It seems like if your car’s driving computer is capable of connecting to the Internet, it’s already badly designed.
I’d have to disagree. An optional feature to update a street database and possibly be notified of critical updates to the algorithm (when other modules are found to be killing people, say) seems like a wise inclusion.
Also, live traffic data to use the available road-space more efficiently. My GPS does that already, and will divert me around traffic jams when there are available side roads, but will stay on the main route when the side-roads as just as bad.