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Originally Posted by Philippe D.
(What humans have, and computers only have when they have been explicitly programmed for, is "oh sh**" reflexes: when something that should never happen, happens, they try to improvise an emergency response. My guess is that's where your adage comes from - a computer with no such "unexpected situation" failsafes will happily go on doing whatever it was doing, increasing the damage tenfold)
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Which is why the first generation robotrucks will have human monitors and will be limited to the interstates, where there is more room to look ahead and avoid idiots. People keep visualizing driverless sixteen wheelers in urban rush hour settings they will never be allowed to enter.
As the Volvo exec quoted above said, nobody wants to risk ruining it for everybody.
Naysayers also neglect to consider that where human drivers are limited to visual cues and tactile feedback, robotrucks are loaded with a full range of sensors with greater range than anybody not named Matt Murdock. Radar, lidar, infrared, precision accelerometers, night vision cameras for the human monitors...
One thing robotrucks will most assuredly be is defensive drivers, always looking out for crazy human drivers down the road.