Watching that Cruise video for the first time, I’m struck by how patient and conservative the system is when encountering obstacles or waiting for pedestrians to cross, it doesn’t try to sneak or squeeze past double parked vans in a hurry for example.
I wonder how much safer roads could be if human drivers were all a little more patient? Although, as I understand it the chief benefit of FSD is that it is highly predictable and doesn’t make impulsive choices.
I wonder how much safer roads could be if human drivers were all a little more patient?
Depends on country. In my opinion, in Switzerland, the human drivers are already almost perfect. In Italy, I was surprised that most of them somehow manage to survive the day.
It’s very interesting how much culture (and I suppose population density and jurisdiction too) can affect driving style.
As for Italy, there’s a throwaway line in a Dave Snowden talk about how drivers in Italy (Naples? Rome?) can be observed to follow the same basic ‘rules’ as a birds in a flock—kind of a Simon’s Ant thing about how seemingly complex behavior actually is operating on a small set of simple rules.
Watching that Cruise video for the first time, I’m struck by how patient and conservative the system is when encountering obstacles or waiting for pedestrians to cross, it doesn’t try to sneak or squeeze past double parked vans in a hurry for example.
I wonder how much safer roads could be if human drivers were all a little more patient? Although, as I understand it the chief benefit of FSD is that it is highly predictable and doesn’t make impulsive choices.
Depends on country. In my opinion, in Switzerland, the human drivers are already almost perfect. In Italy, I was surprised that most of them somehow manage to survive the day.
It’s very interesting how much culture (and I suppose population density and jurisdiction too) can affect driving style.
As for Italy, there’s a throwaway line in a Dave Snowden talk about how drivers in Italy (Naples? Rome?) can be observed to follow the same basic ‘rules’ as a birds in a flock—kind of a Simon’s Ant thing about how seemingly complex behavior actually is operating on a small set of simple rules.