Driverless taxis

GibbosEmpire

GibbosEmpire

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Driverless taxis are now in use in America , one taxi crashed into a fire truck, two more blocked an ambulance that couldn't get through where the patient later died and the company said it wasnt their fault. Would you get in a taxi where there was no driver? I don't think I would.
 
With car automation I wondered what would happen with bigger road awareness e.g you hear an ambulance and need to pull in/ stop before the junction. I'm sure its been thought of. Or manual road management with stop/go signs rather than lights.

Automation is the way forward, it just needs to be right. Accidents will happen. Would need to see the odds versus normal taxis to really make a judgement.
 
Cambsred said:
With car automation I wondered what would happen with bigger road awareness e.g you hear an ambulance and need to pull in/ stop before the junction. I'm sure its been thought of. Or manual road management with stop/go signs rather than lights.

Automation is the way forward, it just needs to be right. Accidents will happen. Would need to see the odds versus normal taxis to really make a judgement.
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Not to mention millions of taxi drivers would be out of a job? Also what if the customer collapses and has a heart attack and there's nobody there to intervene? Also what if you're stuck in traffic and you want to get out to walk the rest? And is the car locked so you can't get out till you arrive at your destination? And how boring would it be to be in a driverless taxi?
 
Driverless taxis It can't happen in Thailand.
Because the roads in Bangkok are crowded with cars all the time.
And roads in Bangkok It's not as organized as Europe.
But taxi drivers in Thailand Incredibly good at driving.
He can go into alleyways, take shortcuts and then can be safely delivered to the destination.

I think it's not necessary in Thailand.
 
sugee jung said:
Driverless taxis It can't happen in Thailand.
Because the roads in Bangkok are crowded with cars all the time.
And roads in Bangkok It's not as organized as Europe.
But taxi drivers in Thailand Incredibly good at driving.
He can go into alleyways, take shortcuts and then can be safely delivered to the destination.

I think it's not necessary in Thailand.
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I don't think it would work anywhere in Asia perhaps Singapore that's it. For it to work you'd need other cars, motorbikes to not weeve in and out of traffic, or drive the opposite side of the road. I don't think locals would stand for it either, billions of people would be out of jobs
 
GibbosEmpire said:
Driverless taxis are now in use in America , one taxi crashed into a fire truck, two more blocked an ambulance that couldn't get through where the patient later died and the company said it wasnt their fault. Would you get in a taxi where there was no driver? I don't think I would.
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Have you seen how bad some of our local taxi drivers are, it’s probably safer to have a driverless one.

As a side note when I was a student, a taxi driver lived next door, well three of them, they all shared the same car and taxi license and did 8 hour shifts each with the car being used 24hrs 🤦‍♂️
 
Priv said:
Have you seen how bad some of our local taxi drivers are, it’s probably safer to have a driverless one.

As a side note when I was a student, a taxi driver lived next door, well three of them, they all shared the same car and taxi license and did 8 hour shifts each with the car being used 24hrs 🤦‍♂️
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How did you know they shared the same taxi license? Also how does that make it safer? Doesn't that just highlight the system needs changing rather than have a driverless taxi
 
I wonder if all those worries have been looked into and plans to troubleshoot them will be in place.

It's difficult to account for specific scenarios- all you can do is risk assess. E.g a heart attack. What if the driver has a heart attack- no risk of that if its driverless.

Would be interesting to talk it through with someone who is developing them. What is currently in place, what are the challenges. I expect a lot of the risks in other countries will gradually reduce as more automation leads to more uniform driving patterns.

I do agree about the jobs, but that is the way with any tech/ automation. A lot of jobs are at risk but that is for another thread.
 
GibbosEmpire said:
How did you know they shared the same taxi license? Also how does that make it safer? Doesn't that just highlight the system needs changing rather than have a driverless taxi
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Because I used to use them when I was going into town or getting picked up and there was only ever one license, I used to joke about it with them. Not entirely sure how I knew was any of your business though.
 
Priv said:
Because I used to use them when I was going into town or getting picked up and there was only ever one license, I used to joke about it with them. Not entirely sure how I knew was any of your business though.
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You said that you knew that they had one license between them, if you don't want anyone to discuss that then don't say it on a public forum.
 
Cambsred said:
I do agree about the jobs, but that is the way with any tech/ automation. A lot of jobs are at risk but that is for another thread.
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It is an important discussion and a genuine concern though.

AI, automation etc can be a real force for good. However I'm very sceptical they're compatible with our current capitalist society.

They should mean people don't have to work as much and have more leisure time (in an idealistic world we'd use this to do things like exercise more and socialise more, reducing the strain on public services). But of course businesses aren't going to invest in this technology only to end up with the same wage bill.

And this current government in particular believes if the plebs aren't working themselves to the bone they must be workshy, idle scroungers. So there won't be any intervention from the state (even though it'd potentially cause any number of issues the state should be concerned about).

Some countries will get it right. Most won't. Pretty sure the UK will be amongst the latter.
 
Cambsred said:
I wonder if all those worries have been looked into and plans to troubleshoot them will be in place.

It's difficult to account for specific scenarios- all you can do is risk assess. E.g a heart attack. What if the driver has a heart attack- no risk of that if its driverless.

Would be interesting to talk it through with someone who is developing them. What is currently in place, what are the challenges. I expect a lot of the risks in other countries will gradually reduce as more automation leads to more uniform driving patterns.

I do agree about the jobs, but that is the way with any tech/ automation. A lot of jobs are at risk but that is for another thread.
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If you're interested, then another plug for Professor Hannah Fry's book, Hello World: How to be human in the age of the machine, which has a whole chapter on driverless cars and and some of the challenges associated with them.

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NorthumberlandBoro said:
I look forward to the day I can get a driverless taxi to the Riverside, use my phone to get in, scan my phone in a machine for my free pint and watch 11 robots beat another 11 robots on an artificial pitch.
Can't wait!
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You joke but that all sounds better than the current match day experience and sounds like we get 3 points at last so I'm all for it
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
You joke but that all sounds better than the current match day experience and sounds like we get 3 points at last so I'm all for it
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Hmmm, we know how good the Boro are at IT implementations and so I fully expect 6 of them to conk out as they run onto the pitch, 4 to be accidentally programmed to score own goals and the remaining one to run through the crowds smashing up supporters.
 
GibbosEmpire said:
Not to mention millions of taxi drivers would be out of a job? ... And how boring would it be to be in a driverless taxi?
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I wasn't convinced but you've sold me on the idea now, not having to make small talk with a barely in the closet racist blathering on about Khanage & the usual suspects just to get home. Although Musk will probably code that in to his AI.
 
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