Google to make driverless cars act more like humans after complaints they are too polite

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Google Inc. designed its self-driving cars to follow the rules of the road. Now it’s teaching them to drive like people, by cutting corners, edging into intersections and crossing double-yellow lines. The cars are “a little more cautious than they need to be,” Chris Urmson, who leads Google’s effort to develop driverless cars, told a conference in July. “We are trying to make them drive more humanistically.” 

“We clearly are a little jerkier than we would like,” he said. “But all of these cases have been when we are sitting still.” Some drivers around Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., say they find the cars annoying. They inch forward at T intersections, pausing regularly to get their bearings. They’re extra careful when turning left because their software calculates a minimum safe turning distance from oncoming traffic. Humans have a more instinctive, and higher risk, assessment.  Google’s cars used to make wide left turns. But those turns confused other drivers and felt “weird” to passengers, Mr. Fairfield said. By studying human turning patterns, Google saw that people take corners more directly, turning earlier, “cheating in the turns” as Mr. Fairfield puts it. So Google baked that into its algorithms.

 Twelve minutes into the test drive, Google’s car drifted toward the center of a two-way street, driving over the double-yellow line to get around a parked car—the result of another change. Google once forbid its cars from crossing a double yellow. But that proved impractical when parked cars blocked the road, and Google’s car had to stop indefinitely. “It’s just unnatural and bizarre,” Mr. Fairfield said. “You want to figure out when the right time is to relax things a little bit.” At stop signs, Google adopted a “creep” function to show other drivers its car intends to proceed. Otherwise, at four-way stops it might continue to wait until the intersection was clear. The cars still slow down or stop when they’re unsure of what’s going on. Google now is building human flexibility and interpretation into more of these unusual cases. If a traffic light is out and other cars are treating the intersection as a four-way stop, Google’s cars will sense that and do likewise.

 

Hope making it more human like wont cause accidents like humans or even more..

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/11898149/Google-to-make-driverless-cars-act-more-like-humans-after-complaints-they-are-too-polite.html

http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-tries-to-make-its-cars-drive-more-like-humans-1443463523

[ShadowCaptain]

Soon it will start speeding, crashing and doing skids in the car park because thats what normal people do

[DigitalHermit]

I'd like to see that car survive a day in Manila traffic... (granted that any hits on it or by it be ignored by law enforcement as it is a driverless car)

 

Soon it will start speeding, crashing and doing skids in the car park because thats what normal people do

 

It will also order and install its very own fart cans and bench wings...

[JebKerman]

sounds strangely normal for google, I don't know why.

[DimasRMDO]

If this continues, I just.... Don't know....

I can't imagine a driverless car being an a**hole.

[flibberdipper]

inb4 they start doing 90 in a 55

[Trik'Stari]

I really hope they don't make it tailgate. I f**king hate it when people tailgate.

[DimasRMDO]

I really hope they don't make it tailgate. I f**king hate it when people tailgate.

When they suddenly hit the brake.

[squirrl]

inb4 they start doing 90 in a 55

Just imagine the car in a jail cell for speeding

[Trik'Stari]

When they suddenly hit the brake.

That actually gives me an idea. Teach the driverless cars to break-check people when they tail gate.

[DimasRMDO]

Just imagine the car in a jail cell for speeding

When the police checks the car.

Police 1: "There's nobody inside??? :huh: "

Police 2: "The f*ck?"

[terrytek]

if they can learn to open the throttle up a lot more, i'd be happy with a driverless car.

[Suika]

I really hope they don't make it tailgate. I f**king hate it when people tailgate.

Stopping a tail gater is ezpz. Just keep spraying washer fluid so it hits their windshield, they'll back off.

[Trik'Stari]

Stopping a tail gater is ezpz. Just keep spraying washer fluid so it hits their windshield as well as yours, they'll back off.

That or let off the gas and go half the speed limit.

[ShadowCaptain]

That or let off the gas and go half the speed limit.

 

I like to slow down. to like 5mph.. and block their way... and then when they go to overtake. just speed up

[ApolloX75]

That or let off the gas and go half the speed limit.

That's my favorite.

[DimasRMDO]

I like to slow down. to like 5mph.. and block their way... and then when they go to overtake. just speed up

Thug life, but to be honest I do that sometimes, easy way to set someone off

[Blade of Grass]

I like to slow down. to like 5mph.. and block their way... and then when they go to overtake. just speed up

Keep in mind that's highly illegal in some areas.

[ShadowCaptain]

Keep in mind that's highly illegal in some areas.

 

Keep in mind... fuck the police

[DimasRMDO]

Keep in mind... fuck the police

When I see the police when doing this, I'm just sweating like a damn river.

[ShadowCaptain]

When I see the police when doing this, I'm just sweating like a damn river.

 

I hate when the police follow me.. I forget how to drive

[DimasRMDO]

I hate when the police follow me.. I forget how to drive

When they turn their siren on, I'd assume they're after me even if not.

Must.... Act.... Normally....

[techswede]

I hope they add an arm that extends to gesture at someone that they're being wankers

[ShadowCaptain]

I hope they add an arm that extends to gesture at someone that they're being wankers

 

You can use both your hands since you dont have to hold the wheel

 

You could even moon them

[techswede]

You can use both your hands since you dont have to hold the wheel

 

You could even moon them

That almost. Just almost. Makes me hate self driving cars a tiny bit less.