Human brain may not act on time if the car’s system fails
AB Wire
The use of self-driving cars is likely to go up substantially in upcoming years. But, according to experts, using self-driving cars may lead to more deaths as the drivers may fail to take control of the vehicle if the car’s system crashes.
According to a report by Associated Press, experts say that the automakers are developing self-driving cars based on an unreliable assumption that the driver inside the car will take control if the system fails. But, humans also may fail to act on time because of the specialty of the human brain.
Researchers have proved that human brain needs to be stimulated continuously for keeping alerted. The brain will go lazy if it does not find anything interesting to think about.
Monitoring a system which rarely fails also makes mind lazy as the brain does not have many tasks to do. The more reliable the system, the more inactive the brain will become.
The same logic is applicable in the case of people traveling on a self-driving car. Their brain may become idle while riding the car as they don’t need to monitor anything and may fail to control the car if its system crashes leading to fatal accidents.
More automatic features are added to vehicles every year. So the chances of making accidents and causing lives are also going up according to the experts. The accidents in aviation and rail also suggest that automation increases accidents.
Recently, a 40-year-old man was killed in Ohio, US, where his self-driving car crashed into a truck. It was found that both the autopilot and the man had failed to apply the break while the truck was taking a turn on a highway. In February this year, a Google self-driving car also had caused a crash in California.
Auto major Audi is planning to launch an automatic car in 2018 which will have a system that monitors the head and eye movements of the driver and slows down if the river’s attention gets diverted.
However, the US National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has decided to promote the use of self-driving cars. “No one incident will stop the NHTSA from promoting highly automated driving development,” said NHTSA head Mark Rosekind during his keynote address at the Automated Vehicles Symposium in San Francisco, yesterday.
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I stopped at “Human brain may not act on time if the car’s system fails”
That’s not self driving. If you can’t get that right, the entire article is worthless.
The reason the writer of this article didn’t want to tie his name to this is because he knows how stupid it is.
Sorry but these “experts” haven’t got a clue and neither does the author. There is no chance at all that autonomous vehicles are going to cause an increase in deaths. The exact opposite is going to happen and already is happening. Highway fatalities will drop so dramatically that auto insurance eventually won’t be necessary.
Wow. Dumbest article I’ve seen in quite a while.