Self-driving cars seem to be just about all the auto industry can discuss lately, but at least one robotics expert thinks it’s time to slow that roll a little bit. While a Duke University researcher and is all for autonomous technology, she said it’s far from ready for widespread deployment.
That researcher, Duke engineering professor Missy Cummings, isn’t judging the landscape of autonomous technology from the outside—she has over a decade of experience as a fighter pilot and currently leads a study on how pedestrians interact with driverless vehicles. In a recent interview with Automotive News, Cummings said there’s no question that the automobile industry will one day be autonomous—what remains is how, and how fast, it will get there.
Autonomous technology is a large and complicated step to take, but it can be easy to get caught up in marketing hype that naturally comes when companies want to sell their products—in essence, making this particular step seem smoother than it may actually be when it comes to widespread dispersement.
But Cummings called driving “one of the most complex domains” there is—even more so than aviation. While she said she would prefer to move straight to fully autonomous roads, she simply hasn’t seen any test data to suggest that the technology is ready. To get there, Cummings believes it will take improvement on the cars and in the training that humans receive before (not) driving them.
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