Self-Driving Cars Have Many Obstacles, Says Mercedes-Benz CEO
Self-driving cars was the hot topic in this year's Auto Show in Detroit. Speaking at this occasion, Mercedes-Benz CEO says there are many obstacles yet to be overcomed for self-driving cars. He said these obstacles will have solutions as we increase the number of capabilities.
Talking about obstacles, one issue can be driving in the rural areas where roads are unpaved. No doubt this car can detect an oncoming car, but how it will know how far to move over? In rural areas where dirt is everywhere, how will car know that road has ended? Can it react accordingly to an un-expected pothole? All these questions for self-driving cars come under the road's quality check which is still not achieved at this level.
Another example of obstacles for self driving cars is about delivery services. one such scenario can be take-out food. On any takeout restaurant how employees will know which car belongs to the right customer? and if they know how they will get inside the car to leave the order? How payments will work for such orders to restaurants?
After pointing such obstacles, Mercedes-Benz USA President and CEO Dietmar Exler is very confident that things can turn positively from challenges into solutions by achieving more compatibility for self-driving cars.
If Mercedes complaining that much, that means self driving car researches are not going very well for them. Actually, they have a point on rural areas. But i don't get the logic of mentioning from take-out food services.
I think he was talking about how employees will leave food inside the car and the user can pay and then receive the food. In these cars, there is no driver so some mechanism must be built by the restaurants and the customer needs to know how to use that mechanism. I think that's what he was talking about.
Yes i see, but it still seems unlogical. There is no meaning of arguing how take-out food will be received by customer if there is no way to deliver it without driver. Counting that as one of the main obstacles in self driving car manufacture is not realistic. I'm meaning that.
I agree. I really don't see the difficulty in the take-out food services.
Only time will tell how they can solve these issues. Take out food he mentioned is also a serious discussion among researching panels.
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