Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now

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Animation by Fabio Albertelli and Jakub Misiek
Edited by Trenton Oliver
Audio Mix and SFX by Shaun Clifford
Additional video supplied by Getty Images and Pond 5
Produced by Derek Muller, Emily Zhang and Petr Lebedev

[jeremysoojk]

Derek: It's weird trusting a driverless car
Also Derek: Hops into makeshift cart with giant windmill

[rarewhiteape]

I hope you were all being honest when the Captcha asked you to click on the squares containing traffic lights.

[nikofromthehitgameoneshot]

they should make these, but longer, and maybe even on rails

[Sharivari]

Ever wondered why in captchas you have to choose bikes, crossings, school busses and so on? Now you know. Genius idea.

[kgtnp]

This feels like a commercial. The other issues is many of these fully autonomous cars have remote drivers monitoring them or are limited to very few areas.

This tech will be ready when it can be used on EVERY road in EVERY weather condition.

[SanderEvers]

Honestly, you can replace any car with something really simple: a train. And just take your bike or walk te final distance. Sure you'll need a robust train network, but it is absolutely doable. Since, well, here in the Netherlands we have exactly that network. Plus the bike or walking to the destination.

[adsr]

This seriously made me have doubts about the moral integrity of the Veritasium team.

[vincentrobitaille]

This just makes me realise how much more public transport we need. I think it's an error seeing autonomous vehicules as a main solution for traffic and road safety

[MadMovieMakers]

The best driverless cars should have a race, or rigorous safety competition

[timothystockman]

They were called "elevator operators", and were still in a few buildings in my younger days. Automatic elevators don't have to dodge other elevators... For those who don't know, the auto-land is tracking the ILS signals sent by a transmitter from the runway; auto-land requires significant airport infrastructure to work. I would guess that some amount of roadway infrastructure will be required to make auto-driving truly safe.

[These_Old_Engines]

This aged poorly, I thought this was all sealed up ready to go? Also the fact that they tried to sue Cali to cover up their crash Every month that goes by this PR video puts a further black mark on your reputation. Hope the cash was worth it.

[thebeeemill]

I’m really curious how they handle in scenarios where a human is directing traffic. That is, when police are directing traffic around a crash or workers are directing traffic through an area with road work

[ShortHax]

Driverless cars are also wearing seatbelts. What an amazing time to be alive

[Imbatmn]

I think building more self driving high speed trains would be better, because it has to stick to a track so theres less variables when it comes to traffic, a train can tow more and if we can have it so trucks only have to get the supplies from the train, they dont have to make 3 day travels with the goods. It would lower costs because you dont have to pay the driver as many hours, also since the driver is more local, more money can be spent in the economy. This would also help more trucks to become solar because its a shorter distance and theres time to charge between orders.

[NinjaBearFilms]

I want two things…

A federal law that says when an autonomous accident happens, all that cars data from its sensors must be made available to every autonomous car designer within a set time limit. So every manufacturer can say, “we’ve tested the data in simulation and this is how our vehicle would have responded. Based on this data we’re adding these improvements.”

And second… I want a self driving semi-truck that had the trailer converted into a luxury RV. So when I go on vacation we just climb in, say “I want to see Mount Rushmore this summer.” And off we go.

[fanjan]

My dad who was a pilot, in the late 70's, did an auto landing just to see how the new technology works, on Boeing. He had his hands ready at the flight wheel all the way down, but, in the late 70's, the plane, landed itself.

[programagor]

I'm sure this was already said in the comments, but the reason pilots land manually on sunny days is that on those sunny days, Cat IIIb operations may not be in effect at the airport. The equipment requires clearance around the runway to guarantee accuracy, and more stringent spacing standards are required. It is more efficient to guide planes close enough to the runway so they can see it, and then let them land manually, visually. On foggy days, airports with Cat IIIb capabilities have it active, as that's when pilots are required to use it.

[mad_like_a_hatter]

Wonder what their parameters are for self break downs like a tire blow out, lightning strike, or any mechanical catastrophic failure. Or what the procedure is when someone has a heart attack and can’t hit the button if it just keeps driving for the entire trip or if there’s onboard visual monitors.

[MrBendybruce]

"Full disclosure, this video is sponsored by Waymo and I've decided to swap out My scientific skeptics hat for my far more valuable propaganda one, so I can get that bag."

[ar]

"Open the door Waymo!"
"I'm sorry, Derek. I'm afraid I can't do that."