" Obviously more information is needed, but I thought the entire point of having a driver behind the wheel is to manually intervene to prevent this very situation?"
I think it's time to point out the obvious, and require that autonomous cars apply the brakes first, and THEN require driver intervention.
And that they be a whole lot quicker to err on the side of braking.
Cameras getting fuzzy ?
Slow down.
Your ML algorithms are showing lower confidence measures for how they classify nearby objects and trajectories ?
Slow down.
nearby vehicles slowing down and you don't know why?
Nothing I love more than HackerNews armchair engineering.
It's not that simple, you're assuming the car even had some indication that something was wrong. For all we know the car's vision was showing high confidence it saw an open road.
I think it's time to point out the obvious, and require that autonomous cars apply the brakes first, and THEN require driver intervention.
And that they be a whole lot quicker to err on the side of braking.
Cameras getting fuzzy ?
Slow down.
Your ML algorithms are showing lower confidence measures for how they classify nearby objects and trajectories ?
Slow down.
nearby vehicles slowing down and you don't know why?
Slow down.
This is inexcusable.