Real time for what? [LWN.net]

Real time for what?

Posted Nov 14, 2012 11:58 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Real time for what? by KSteffensen
Parent article: LCE: Realtime, present and future

I do think they will have to prove their safety far more rigorously than the average human driver, though.

I think a Turing-like test should suffice: If during a driving test, a driving license examiner cannot tell whether a computer or a person is driving the car, and it looks as if the entity in question ought to pass, then – if it was actually the computer driving – the setup is OK.

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Real time for what?

Posted Nov 21, 2012 19:02 UTC (Wed) by ceswiedler (subscriber, #24638) [Link]

Or the driving test is wildly insufficient to distinguish bad drivers.

Real time for what?

Posted Nov 22, 2012 11:17 UTC (Thu) by Otus (guest, #67685) [Link]

> Or the driving test is wildly insufficient to distinguish bad drivers.

That's not the purpose of most driving tests. Usually the purpose is to see if someone is good enough that they'll learn the rest on their own without being too much of a danger to others.

Realistically most people who pass a driving test are going to be bad drivers for a long while. (Unless they are testing for a license in another state/country and have already driven a lot.)

Real time for what?

Posted Nov 22, 2012 11:24 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

Naturally. There's a driving examiner in the front passenger seat; getting an accurate picture of someone's everyday driving in such conditions is more or less impossible.