Uber’s Self-Driving Car Visualization Platform

[Larz60+]

Engineering Uber’s Self-Driving Car Visualization Platform
If interested in how it's done: https://eng.uber.com/atg-dataviz/

[metulburr]

I personally would not feel comfortable driving around with my kids in a vehicle in a lane next to an automated vehicle.

[ichabod801]

I feel the same way about manual vehicles. ; )

[Larz60+]

I worry about the automatic breaking systems that have started to come out.
I can imagine a lot of rear end collisions from those

[metulburr]

I could just imagine the computer short circuiting from tin whiskers and the movie Runaway Car (1997) being experienced by those poor saps.

[ichabod801]

In Halting State by Charles Stross, driving has been outsourced. There's a camera, and some guy drives the car remotely. Now THAT'S scary.