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When Your Teenage Robot Can Drive

Humans drivers are expected to be mature enough to anticipate what might happen on the road next. What expectations should we have of drivers who are not human?

eetimes.com, Oct. 13, 2019 – 

In the upcoming era of autonomous vehicles, mandating that a self-driving robo-car pass a driver's test before it's allowed to roam free on public roads strikes most people as a sensible precaution.

Indeed, the idea isn't new. I remember reading an op-ed essay, "A 16-Year-Old Needs a License. Shouldn't a Self-Driving Car?" three years ago in the New York Times.

The authors wrote:

We have tests for driver's licenses because people differ in their skills and abilities. Systems for self-driving vehicles are no different in this respect: When we share the road, we need to know who, or what, is behind the wheel.

Well put.

But some safety experts argue that giving an autonomous vehicle (AV) a driver skills test would not necessarily prove that the AV is safe.

Imagine, for example, you are driving on a highway, and you notice the mattress strapped to the top of the vehicle in front of you is coming loose. You – a human driver – are expected to recognize the impending peril and have enough common sense to take precautions – perhaps steering into another lane, or braking to create more distance between you and the car ahead or, faced with airborne bedding and no other options, running over the obstruction.

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