Driverless Nissan nearly takes out cyclist

[Trickedem]

Clearly something wrong with Nissan driverless car trials. They should be taken off the road until they sort this out.

 

[Drago]

To be fair, most manually piloted Nissans are a danger to our kind.

 

[Trickedem]

To be fair, most manually piloted Nissans are a danger to our kind.

Good point! The Nissan engineer behind the wheel didn't even seem to notice the problem

 

[Oldbloke]

Are they still built with bifocal windscreens?

 

[srw]

Clearly something wrong with Nissan driverless car trials. They should be taken off the road until they sort this out.

That'll probably take roughly a week.

These are very preliminary trials to see how these cars cope with a real, tricky city. The answer so far seems to be "remarkably well".

And the prize for cyclists is so great - the prospect of a class of motorised vehicles that are, in all normal circumstances, going to be completely safe - that I'm willing to tolerate a few close passes as they get there. It's difficult to tell from a video, but as close passes go that wasn't the worst I've seen - there's another equally close by a different car earlier in the clip.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

OMG Didn't the cyclist know it's illegal to ride a bike on a dual carriageway, he should be stopped & sent to jail

 

[Milkfloat]

I am waiting to see the close pass, the video cuts it off before it happens.

 

[ufkacbln]

I am waiting to see the close pass, the video cuts it off before it happens.

Its at 0:49 of the first video

 

[jay clock]

If the right hand lane had been busy I would have been ok with that as the cyclist but abolsutley no reason why the driver should not have overridden it to move out

 

[GuyBoden]

With the latest self riding bike this won't be a problem.

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 4708654, member: 9609"]I can't find the ideo of the cyclist - just the one where it nearly shunts a road sweeper.

Anyway - Do we already have driverless vehicles (even under trila) in the UK ?[/QUOTE]
The lorries, under trial, were taken off the motorways about a year ago

 

[srw]

[QUOTE 4708654, member: 9609"]I can't find the ideo of the cyclist - just the one where it nearly shunts a road sweeper.

Anyway - Do we already have driverless vehicles (even under trila) in the UK ?[/QUOTE]
Errr.....

The video that we're all talking about (which is in the link in the OP) was filmed in the UK. Yes, we do.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/03/drive...d-london-all-week-and-nobody-noticed-6485646/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37618574

And there are now a lot of cars on the road which can be set to self-drive in some circumstances - such as parking.

 

[winjim]

If the right hand lane had been busy I would have been ok with that as the cyclist but abolsutley no reason why the driver should not have overridden it to move out

If it's fine when the right hand lane is busy then it must be fine all the time.

 

[furball]

As a road user I object to becoming a guinea pig when these cars are being tested on the open road.
I guess there isn't anything road users can do about it but it just seems putting other road users at risk is wrong, wrong, wrong.

 

[NorthernDave]

[QUOTE 4708654, member: 9609"]

Anyway - Do we already have driverless vehicles (even under trial) in the UK ?[/QUOTE]

Yes we do and not just on trial - you can already buy a car from a mainstream manufacturer with limited self driving capabilities