Toyota Corporation has demonstrated, though this year the concept car of the future with the function of independent management in their strategic plans. At least, hired two years ago a professor of robotics Praet Gill . According to him, a realistic timeline for implementation of autopilot, close to full independence - at least ten years, and certainly not the beginning of the next decade, as promised by many car manufacturers and their partners. For example, inspired by the collaboration with NVIDIA, Audi stage CES 2017 broadcast that its prototype Q7 crossover with "autopilot" to learn to ride on their own in just three days, using the technology of "artificial intelligence", and the achievement of the fourth level (penultimate) on the SAE classification, Germans will leave no more than three years.
Such statements, according to Toyota working on the former head of DARPA projects have nothing to do with the harsh reality. He also criticized the "semi-automatically" control (level 2 and 3 according to the classification SAE), which provide for the transfer of control from the automatic driver and back. In this transition, there is too great risks - a person to engage fully in the assessment of the traffic situation, it requires a minimum of 15 seconds. Even in the cities of permitted speeds the car has time for this time to overcome hundreds of meters. Moreover, demand from the driver in the car with "autopilot" constant concentration is also pointless - people quickly begin to get distracted by trusting automation longer permitted. Professor Praet even demonstrated a simple example: the audience was asked to clap every two seconds looking at an image on the screen switches hours. If during the first minute of applause rang out synchronously, the second experiment, some participants began to "fall out of the total rate." Similarly, drivers lose concentration. For this reason, some automakers are generally reluctant.
What is important is the psychological aspect of the perception of road safety. Now, when in the United States die every year 35 thousand people on the roads, public opinion refers to this fact with a certain degree of tolerance. However, if the transition to the "autopilot" will reduce the number of deaths at least twice, people will inevitably begin to resent and criticize automation. The fact that a person is forgiven, the robot is unforgivable.
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