How close are we to having fully autonomous vehicles on the roads? Are they safe? In Chandler, Arizona a fleet of Waymo vehicles are already in operation. Waymo sponsored this video and provided access to their technology and personnel. Check out their safety report here:
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The Real Moral Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars
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Nope
Driverless cars dont accomplish anything that a quality multi-modal (walking, biking, bussing) transport network doesn't also provide. AND it doesn't lead to all the terrible things about having mostly autonomous vehicles. For that, watch "autonomous vehicles will destroy our cities"
We live in a stupid world that people actually want this !!!
You're foolish
Driving people assume they are more responsive and their giant tanks trucks will keep them safe despite rain , fog, etc
Trains have 24 times fewer deaths per mile than cars, and buses 12 times less. If you're concerned about safety, you should just build more public transport.
Unfortunately, it will never work, because of a huge amount of jaywalkers illegally crossing the streets where there’s no crosswalk or they just go against the red light and against the don’t walk signals. There’s also drivers breaking laws by going against the red lights, cyclists blasting through stop signs and even through red lights. These are the products of bad behaviors, the disregard for public safety, ignoring the rules of the road, showing lack of compliance for traffic laws, showing disrespect for law enforcement officers including paramedics, and first responders. Human drivers and self driving cars that rely on artificial intelligence and software programming, don’t really work together.
Great video! Unforunately, Veritasium forgot that you aren't supposed to take sponsorships from the subjects of your opinion pieces. Perhaps that's why, in all of his integrity, he forgot to bring up most of the genuine concerns for AV's.
Some fun facts: AV's are often driven remotely and not at all automatically. When your car is so stupid it can be foiled by placing a traffic cone on the hood, this is very necessary. The case of the woman who got run over then subsequently dragged a far distance underneath an autonomous vehicle also comes to mind as an example of how stupid these cars can be. It ran her over, immediately forgot about her as she fell out of view of the camera, then drove over her and dragged her body with it. The part of this video about human v. machine error feels quite grossly directed at cases such as that, even though no human would ever make such a ridiculous mistake.
Also, AV's are extremely inefficient. We've been seeing examples of this for ages with things like Uber Eats, where someone wastes an entire car trip on a single item. With AV's, any time you wish to get someone by car, you are effectively taking two trips in one. One for the car to get to you, and one for you to get to your destination, perhaps even a third for the car to leave. This channel cannot claim to care about climate change and be promoting wastefulness like this. The idea is to reduce emissions not triple them in the name of scientific advancement.
If you live in North America these cars might seem quite appealing. That's because your infrastructure is a circus that supports nothing but cars. There is no problem that AV's can fix that trains, buses, and bicycle and walking infrastructure could not also solve. Unfortunately, if you give in to these cars, you will never get any of those things. Something nice about all of the aforementioned methods of transportation is that they are cheaper, more compatible with each other, emit less gases, and kill less people than AV's.
Finally, just a general note for anyone reading, don't trust the opinions of YouTubers when they are sponsored by the thing they are reviewing. They are, without a shadow of a doubt, leaving out important information. Go watch some unbiased YouTubers who still have a little bit of integrity to them, Veritasium is not one of them. NotJustBikes is a good place to start.
Wow you just took one enormous bad take and made a whole video out of it. Congrats
While I agree that driverless is safer in almost all conceivable metrics, I think the real problem is our overdependence on cars. Cities are built around cars in many ways, but I think public transportation would be more ideal.
Take trains. One dimensional movement that may not even have the need for AI based driverless approaches. One could imagine a driverless system that is entirely rule based, by virtue of being implemented in a determinist program.
I've seen a few Veritasium videos and found them interesting enough to subscribe to his channel. This piece of pure piece of propaganda made me unsubscribe. To claim that autonomous cars is the way to reduce traffic accidents sounds silly to me. And to use lifts and autopilots in passenger planes as arguments for it is an oversimplification in my view. An autopilot needs a lot of human input to do its job – and it is also supervised by the pilots. I hope the payment you got for this video was worth risking your credibility.
Approximately 1.19 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes.
so basically mic, 26hd cam, lidar, radar and building unit constantly monitoring the whole environment and making predictions about where everyone is going? hopefully no bad actors get into power trying to exploit this full-blown surveillance system…oh wait
Have it drive in Chicago, during rush hour, that’ll break it
All that expensive LiDAR and yet the latest FSD technology with only cameras works better in almost all scenarios.
Counter argument:
You shouldn't want cars in cities… At all.
These autonomous vehicles will never get speeding tickets
This has to be the best video on utube for explaining self driving car. In my mind i see more pros than cons for self driving cars. Elon has predicted by 2040 90% of all cars on the road will be self driving. Imagine just taking the drunk drivers off the road. That would be awesome for humanity and no more speeding in school zones to keep kids safer. Just my 2 cents
Great message, bad example. Should've used Tesla as an example instead. That's how we'll get the future of transport; self driving cars.
You dont see a car seat in most ride-sharing cars. Tesla doesnt use lidar. Have not taken one of these yet, put on a recent trip to San Francisco me and my wife were tempted.
There have recently been instances of these cars going off the road and on to the pavement at road speeds look it up there videos showing it
I remember the first time I watched this video, it was the very first I watched from this channel as well…
It was like having your first crush on something, I knew immediately what I wanted to do in life.
I said: I don't wanna be JUST an ordinary passenger riding that stuff. I want to be the mind behind it"
And I started pursuing the ML Engineer path, I learned about deep reinforcement learning, and I am still in love with that technology. I deeply fell in love.
Thank you, Derek!
The fact that 74% of people think that they are above average drivers is not as ridiculous as it sounds at first. People are not judging by the same standards, but almost everyone is judging by the standards by which they score well.
For instance, I consider "good driving" to include good 360 degree awareness, good ability to detect where problems might come from, proper reactions in dangerous circumstances, such as skidding on ice, other drivers doing dangerous things, etc. By that criteria, I am clearly above average.
However, Grandma might feel that "good driving" consists of always staying below the speed limit; always coming a perfect stop at stop signs, even those in an empty parking lot; waiting for all three lanes of the highway to be clear before merging; etc.
By her criteria, she is well above average, and I am well below average. By my criteria, I'm above average and she is below average. Both of us believe ourselves to be above average drivers, and we are both correct.
It's not a bias that we are better. It's just known vs unknown. People know how bad other humans are, and we've accepted the risk. Once they know that automated drivers are a ton better than the average human dingdong, then they'll be ok with them.
I'm disliking for the title not the content
These automated vehicles are safe while great care is given to the manufacture and maintenance of all the sensors involved. What about once nearly every car is autonomous? When sensors get old, worn, and dirty, the gps signals don't get through on time, and gps road maps fail to receive essential updates. Not to mention how vulnerable we would be under the hypothetical situation of an attack on gps satellites.
this aged poorly
You will own nothing and be happy.
I think is going happen in 9 years from now we could see all cars would be self driving
after the crash,
the truck driver could hear Harry Potter coming from the car audio
People, including me, are resistant to self-driving cars. I think there are better alternatives. I just don't want another aspect of my life handed over to a giant tech conglomerate.
You can't compare plane autopilot to car autopilot sorry. Planes require special equipment on the airport to guide it to land, also there is no traffic and random stuff all around it, and also when something unexpected happens pilots always take control, never let autopilot deal with anything. Against human mistakes on the road you can adopt defensive driving (humans are predictable), against random hw faults and bad Indian programmer you can't adopt anything. Also if an accident happens I would like a human to take responsibility not some random company and just pay useless fines for their mistakes.
What about economy? I man police man will have less job
What about art I mean ai is good but is just eh I mean art is expressing emotions on pictures
We already have self driving cars, ones' with a lot more passenger seats too. They are far mor sustainable than the current way of thinking that one person can take up a lot more road space and use up more rare raw materials and production energy etc. They are called trains.
OK you have changed my mind but there are definitely times I want to drive myself and I don't want to give up my freedoms for my safty, so how would you propose a balance between those two things?
You mentioned driverless cars would reduce traffic. Having everyone work from home that can is what will reduce traffic.
So, if there is a bug in the software (there will always be bugs in software) and the self-driving car hits a pedestrian in a crosswalk, who is held responsible?
not getting in a car where the driver can get hacked
Did Waymo have a whole team watching the ride demonstration ready to override at any moment?