Ontario announces participants hitting road in self-driving car pilot project

[spaminator]

Ontario announces participants hitting road in self-driving car pilot project
THE CANADIAN PRESS
First posted: Monday, November 28, 2016 10:52 AM EST
TORONTO - Self-driving vehicles will soon hit Ontario roads, with the first three participants in the province’s pilot project announced today.
Ontario became the first province in Canada this year to open up a pilot project to test automated vehicles on its roads.
Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca announced today that the University of Waterloo’s Centre for Automotive Research will test a Lincoln MKZ, auto manufacturer the Erwin Hymer Group will test a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Van and QNX, a software subsidiary of BlackBerry, will test a 2017 Lincoln.
Under the pilot project, a driver must remain in the driver’s seat at all times and monitor its operation and must follow the rules of the road.
The pilot is set to run for 10 years.
Del Duca says the project gives Ontario “the opportunity to be a world leader in automated technology.”
Ontario announces participants hitting road in self-driving car pilot project |

 

[Danbones]

U.S. safety board to probe crash of self-driving shuttle

Reporter Jeff Zurschmeide, who was on the shuttle at the time of the crash, said the self-driving vehicle did what it was programmed to do but not everything a human driver might do.

"That’s a critical point," Zurschmeide wrote on digitaltrends.com. "We had about 20 feet of empty street behind us (I looked), and most human drivers would have thrown the car into reverse and used some of that space to get away from the truck. Or at least leaned on the horn and made our presence harder to miss."

The crash follows a rising number of incidents involving human drivers behaving improperly or recklessly around self-driving cars. There have been 12 crashes in California alone since Sept. 8 involving General Motors Co's self-driving unit, Cruise Automation. All were the fault of human drivers in other vehicles, GM told regulators.

The NTSB investigated a May 2016 crash of a Tesla Inc Model S that killed a driver using the vehicle’s semi-autonomous “Autopilot” system. In September, the board recommended that auto safety regulators and automakers take steps to ensure that semi-autonomous systems were not misused.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/n...oard-to-probe-driverless-shuttle-crash/89156/

 

[Murphy]

Which probably explains why the Ontario trial will be 10 years.

 

[petros]

In Quebec they will frappe la rue?

 

[Murphy]

Prolly.