I'm interviewed in the Washington Post!

[klwilliams]

A while back, I noticed a self-driving car turn right from a left turn lane, so I sent my observation to the Mr. Roadshow column in the local paper. He forwarded my letter to a woman writing an article for the San Jose Mercury News on testing autonomous cars in Sunnyvale. Apparently, a local reporter for the Washington Post saw that, and asked to interview me. The link is below (and Chaz is mentioned as an award-winning science fiction author), for the story and for an accompanying video (where I look old and fat and pale, but I think I sound smart).

There's a paywall, but it's very cheap.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/03/silicon-valley-pioneered-self-driving-cars-some-its-tech-savvy-residents-dont-want-them-tested-their-neighborhoods/

Comments

[sovay]

I'm interviewed in the Washington Post!

Cool!

[life_of_glamour]

Nice article!

[shewhomust]

There's an interesting 'Long Read' in yesterday's

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There's an interesting <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/03/collision-course-pedestrian-deaths-rising-driverless-cars">'Long Read' in yesterday's <cite<Guardian</cite></a> about why pedestrian deaths are rising. The pull quotes and preamble seem to have been chosen to suggest to the reader that it's about driverless cars, but the article as a whole doesn't think that's the problem! Interesting data, all the same...

[klwilliams]

There's been one death over here that I know of (you can see a clip of it in the video that goes with the article - and I'm in the video, too), where a woman pushed a bike, at night, in front of an oncoming autonomous vehicle. There was a human in the car who was supposed to take over in an emergency, but she was busy texting.

[julesjones]

Nice on the interview. :-)

I've seen concerns for quite a while now that the biggest danger with autonomous cars will be that they're supposed to take *most* of the load off the human pilot, and people being people will understand the "self-driving" to mean "I can go to sleep".