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    It is now time for self driving buses in Hong Kong

    Hong Kong should now begin trial of self driving buses.. perhaps in the New Territories first...


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    Self driving anything won't work in HK unless everything is self driving. There's too much selfish behaviour on the roads and any sensibly cautious AI will never manage to pull out of a bus stop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aw451:
    Self driving anything won't work in HK unless everything is self driving. There's too much selfish behaviour on the roads and any sensibly cautious AI will never manage to pull out of a bus stop.
    The Transport Department is a bigger problem than any thing an HK driver would throw at the AI!

    They don't even allow basic software on EVs and modern ICE cars because it might distract the driver - even when they are parked!

    No Netflix, no Youtube, no Games... NOTHING! Because it might distract you while you're parked and waiting for the car to charge!

    Next step would be automated parking I guess. Then may be summons in a parking lot..

    There are a few steps the TD has to take from going to its current risk levels (see above) to self driving anything.

    Clowns will wait for Singapore to approve this ... and then go on about how HK is a unique world city and things need to be done differently. They'll change the font on the Singapore standards and publish in a few days...
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    Quote Originally Posted by aw451:
    Self driving anything won't work in HK unless everything is self driving. There's too much selfish behaviour on the roads and any sensibly cautious AI will never manage to pull out of a bus stop.
    No no, apparently we are upgrading to 4 traffic lights soon to help autonomous vehicles integrate with human driven vehicles. The new light will be white. Red still means stop, green still means go, white is to tell the human drivers to just follow the car in front of them. Easy!

    https://www.iflscience.com/we-may-be...ing-cars-67622

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    in 2000 years may be when science shows it is feasible. and how can we have self driven bus when man driven bus still cannot stay on the road...


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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    Clowns will wait for Singapore to approve this ... and then go on about how HK is a unique world city and things need to be done differently. They'll change the font on the Singapore standards and publish in a few days...
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    wait we are better than singapore...if Singapore does it, we shall do it a hundred years after them just to prove we had a 100 years to prove it is working...

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    Considering how crap real bus drivers are, it probably can't get worse with "self driving".


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    Quote Originally Posted by nivek2046:
    Hong Kong should now begin trial of self driving buses.. perhaps in the New Territories first...
    You could be right. HK has just retired the last of it's 1950's tech periscope buses so now is the time to go driverless.

    https://www.thestandard.com.hk/secti...-periscope-bus

    There are plenty of established driver aids that could be mandated as well as developed country working hours directives. It seems cheaper to lock up drivers that have avoidable accidents.

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    Who would you beat up if the bus was stuck in a traffic jam?

    https://www.thestandard.com.hk/break...tion/4/201849/


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