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The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? (www.fastcompany.com)
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Just to be clear, I do think the obvious solution to terrible things like this is vastly expanded public transit so that people don't have to rely on cars to get everywhere, not overhyped technology and driving aids that are still only marginally better than a human driver. I just thought the article was interesting.

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[–] Cyv_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

I'm all for better safety features but perhaps an easier, cheaper, and more likely to succeed option to use is city planning/enforcement and change of current regulations. For instance, closing the loophole that lets car manufacturers ignore safety and emissions rules for "light truck" classified cars, which at this point is most of the oversized SUVs and pickups.

Alternatively having safer options for pedestrians and cyclists would help too, like having separated bike roads, and pushing highways and stroads out of residential areas and reclaiming city space for pedestrians. Public transit investment also helps reduce the number of drivers, which helps traffic and safety too.

I don't hate the idea of these extra AI tools like emergency braking being required or at least encouraged with stuff like safety ratings, but I think it's going to be very hard to get that implemented anytime soon considering you'd be fighting consumer interest(higher cost cars) and companies who don't want to have to make or license AI tools.

Edit: also the current regime in the US is more interested in de-regulating things to the point where I can get a happy meal wrapped in asbestos with a nice lead toy. So uh... Good luck

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't hate the idea of these extra AI tools

Those are not AI.

considering you'd be fighting consumer interest(higher cost cars) and companies who don't want to have to make or license AI tools.

Openpilot is FOSS. Any OEM could use it without even asking permission.

[–] Cyv_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

The reason I mention AI is because the article talks about AI tools to predict accidents as well. I also googled Openpilot and this is from their wiki page.

In contrast to traditional autonomous driving solutions where the perception, prediction, and planning units are separate "modules", openpilot adopts a system-level end-to-end design to predict the car's trajectory directly from the camera images. openpilot's end-to-end design is a neural network that is trained by comma.ai using real-world driving data uploaded by openpilot users.[34]

So uh. It might be AI

Also it seems openpilot requires hardware for the cameras and stuff, they aren't going to strap third party cameras to cars to sell new. They'd have to implement the sensors in the car itself, and doing so would cost more than nothing.

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