silentlycritical t1_is25ow7 wrote on October 12, 2022 at 7:25 PM

Reply to comment by HumanSeeing in Big Googly Eyes Could Make Autonomous Cars Safer For Pedestrians by greenappletree

Putting googly eyes on a car shifts the responsibility of safety from the thing that kills people to the thing getting killed. It’s a cop out to avoid taking responsibility for designing and building a car that’s safe for anyone not driving (or riding in) that car. So yea, fuck cars, but also fuck the auto industry for always shifting blame and responsibility to pedestrians.

JebusLives42 t1_is32oig wrote on October 12, 2022 at 11:04 PM

This is absurd.

Electric cars are very quiet. Adding external sounds has been contemplated to help alert pedestrians to the presence of the car, and that's certainly not a cop out.

This is no different, except it's 100 times awesomer.

TheCrimsonSteel t1_is2p2h3 wrote on October 12, 2022 at 9:28 PM

I think, or at least hope, that the idea is to use "eye contact" to help communicate things to pedestrians and other drivers, since that is something lots of people do now when both parties are human.

It's something to consider with self driving cars. There's lots of non verbal queues you can get with a person behind the wheel that we need to think about. It's probably going to be some combination of new rules and communication tools for the vehicles.

buffalorocks t1_is383rw wrote on October 12, 2022 at 11:45 PM

The only thing the eyes could communicate is left and right, since they can't fly or tunnel. We should put something like a light that you turn on to communicate that intention. It could even blink.