Consumers have zero trust in self-driving cars, says report
A recent report from Cox Automotive says that the consumer’s acceptance of autonomous vehicles is declining.
Commenting on the report, Tal Ater, CTO of DAV, said: “If we want autonomous vehicles to be as safe as possible we need them to learn about more and more different scenarios. If a car from one driverless car firm witnesses a freak accident such as a container falling off a lorry, that firm’s cars may know how to handle such situations in the future, but cars from other firms won’t have that insight. We therefore need more data sharing between vehicles and operators – in the form of an open marketplace where vehicles can buy and sell their data. This will not only benefit our communities by creating safer roads, but also the car companies themselves by accelerating the pace of development.”
“Mapping and analysing the characteristics of routes, such as the mixture of vehicles on the roads, the types of actions taken by drivers, riders and pedestrians, as well as understanding the flow of vehicles at different points in the day will be essential in training and developing the AI systems used in driverless vehicles.
“The reason we have seen such huge leaps recently in autonomous driving is the emergence of machine learning and computer vision – two technologies that rely heavily on access to huge amounts of training data. The more data that autonomous cars have access to, the safer the car. However, it’s not just about having access to more data, it’s also about having access to a wider variety of data and understanding the unique challenges of each location.
Commenting on London’s own autonomous vehicle project by FiveAI, – Tal Ater, CTO, DAV, said: “London is a particularly challenging environment for autonomous cars. The presence of many historical buildings and roadways that were defined by early carriage paths mean the centre of the city has a road network that, in many parts, struggles with existing vehicle types and volumes. As we saw with bendy buses, not all vehicle types work in London’s narrow streets. A detailed analysis of the operating environment is needed before vehicles are deployed. There is little to no scope for building dedicated lanes or roads for autonomous vehicles in today’s London. Autonomous vehicles will have to coexist with existing road users.”
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