Tempe, Arizona, is now at six o'clock in the evening, the sky is already dark, and a five-lane road is crowded and crowded. I am in it. The reason why everyone is crowded here is because a team of left-turned vehicles occupy the driveway. These vehicles are all self-driving vehicles, and a road is specially designed for them to test.
At this time, an SUV stopped and waited for the traffic light. The window of the cab shook down, making it easy for the cool air at night to enter. Men sitting in the cab are like most drivers and look boring. But he is not a real driver. The Volvo he drove was autonomous. It is Uber's ongoing autonomous driving team project.
The male hand was placed on the thigh casually. Although sitting in the cab, it was no different from the pedestrians waiting for the vehicle to leave. After 5 or 25 years, most people have the ability to take the vehicle to where they want to go. This situation may save people the risk and burden of driving, and of course it may bring new burdens to people. No matter what the future will be, but in the current situation, the era of self-driving cars is too abstract, and everything only exists in people's assumptions. The concept of big companies, the prediction of science and technology, and the real entry into the homes of ordinary people. Still some days.
However, as opposed to Uber, I am deeply shocked by this scene that is likely to appear in the future. This is not an experimental venue, or a promotional video. It is also not in San Francisco or Silicon Valley. The test was conducted in a place in the United States where the car was far from the city center.
At present, very few people express a strange feeling about autonomous driving. In addition to depicting the impact of autonomous driving on technology, ecology, health and the city, we also need to think about the future of urban life. After losing the initial surprise and becoming accustomed to it, autonomous cars will change something that is fundamental but easily overlooked, and that is the face of everyday urban life.
In the field of autonomous driving, Uber is a latecomer; Google's autonomous driving business, Waymo, and even Tesla are strong opponents in the market, posing a great threat. But Uber rushed up.
After California failed to reach a consensus on the test license, it moved the autopilot team to Tempe. This is not the first company to conduct this technical test in this level of city. Google conducted years of automated driving tests in Mountain View before moving the autopilot department to Central Valley, California. Uber also continued to test the driverless team in Pittsburgh, where Uber attracted the top computer vision and robotics researchers at Carnegie Mellon University to help the company automate the car.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey is very supportive of shared cars, especially for Uber. When Doug Ducey opened the door to Uber in Arizona, Uber accepted his invitation.
Uber tells the author that real-world operations are extremely important to the success of autonomous driving projects. Tempe's driver will help the company find out where the technology has room for further improvement, especially where the interests and concerns of the rider are concerned.
In fact, Uber does not directly call them drivers, but rather calls them "laborators" or "operators." Some of these lab members used to be Uber's drivers. The company required all employees to qualify for the self-driving car's driver's seat only after three weeks of training. The experimenter's work is very motivated, and now I am going to find an autonomous pilot in the street. Operators and autopilots can be surprisingly confusing, but this is not unreasonable: Isn't everyone not an operator? At least most of the time. The computer is doing its own work, and human beings are always watching.
In the position of an autonomous car passenger in front of me, the cooperative experimenter took a notebook and was visualizing the road condition. The road condition was collected by the laser radar at the top of the car in real time, guided by remote sensing laser, and carried by the onboard computer. Process the data. As a leader of a rally, take appropriate action when needed. The screen is almost blank and only turns red when it encounters vehicles and other obstacles, suggesting that there may be a threat ahead.
The self-driving car is still a brand new product that has not yet been officially launched, so any mistake of it is severely criticized by the public.
In March of this year, in Tempe, Uber, a self-driving car, had a traffic accident and collided with other vehicles. Although no one was seriously injured in the accident, the responsibility was not auto-driving, but it was still subject to A wide range of reports. Just last week, an accident occurred on the first day of the launch of a self-driving commuter car in Las Vegas. When a truck reversed, it slightly hit the self-driving car parked there. Even so, some media reported the incident as a collision.
This response is unhelpful. The "tram puzzle" is just a philosophical reflection and should not be seen as a moral guide for robot murderers. Standing next to a giant truck controlled by a computer, the problem seems to be more complicated—not just that I am in a dangerous situation. Looking back at the screen of the laptop, it reminds me of the forged pictures on TV or movies. Now, a laptop is controlling a real vehicle through the real street, and there are real pedestrians on the roadside like me.
The design of the Uber driverless car is attractive and reduces its threat to a certain extent. Dark gray color, painted on the back door with a low-key abstract urban grid pattern. The letters "Uber" were engraved near the rear fender and looked like they were added later. Even the laser radar looks very beautiful, with a white round material and a black device on it, in sharp contrast. The tough, atmospheric design of the Volvo SUV adds a lot of color, not to mention the safety, which is definitely the brand value of Volvo.
At this time, the sun is high, the blue sky, under the low buildings and palm trees, the scenery of the sky is unobstructed. The light has a strong contrast, making every hour feel like a dream. A Uber drove across the street and a beam of light passed. Let everyone look at it.
The design of the suburban road in Tempe is a microcosm of the big car country in the United States. Large street, four lanes, five lanes, or even six lanes. It is a suitable place to test driverless cars. In New York, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh, people walk, take trains, transit, or ride bicycles. In Tempe, although there are bicycle lanes on the street, people are still riding bicycles on the sidewalk. Why is this so? The Phoenix subway area is over 9,000 square miles, and most of the year is hot. Pedestrians walk on tarred roads like an adventurous trip. But this is a paradise for cars.
The ambition of Uber's autopilot magnifies the role of the car and becomes a fearless, invincible ship. But in fact it is not limited to this. In the past year, Uber has been troubled, allegations of sexual harassment, corporate theft, bullying, breaking the alliance, and Uber has been criticized. But on the streets of Tempe, its Volvo car is not like a greedy capitalist, it is like a harmless grandmother. They move slowly, just like the trucks that run every day, clockwise around the Arizona State University campus. There are so many self-driving cars, standing on the side of the road, people feel that they really see an exhibition of self-driving cars.
The next day, I sat at PF Chang's (the largest Chinese restaurant chain in the US) for lunch and looked at the intersection of Mill Avenue and University Drive. There are numerous food and beverage outlets on both sides of the road, making it the perfect test site for self-driving cars.
“Have you ever thought about trying Uber's self-driving car?†I asked a waiter who looked like an undergraduate student.
“No,†she replied immediately. "I am afraid."
I explained to her that there are drivers in the car, and her attitude has changed slightly. "In this case, I might try it."
She began to tell me about Tesla's new deal in Scottsdale, Arizona. Elon Musk may turn Tesla into a car dealer like Uber, but I don't think that's why she made it. Tesla, Uber, Waymo, and other similar companies are a bit of a mess for those who don't know much about autonomous driving.
I understand what she meant. One gray Uber self-driving car passes through the corner of the street, from Mill Avenue to the University Avenue, day after day, always. Sometimes several cars appear at the same time, one after the other. Synchronizing the turn signals makes the self-driving car look like a degraded robot, not a product of the future.
Just take a ride on everything and solve it. The waiter took the bill and the fortune cookie (a small note with a predicted fortune, often seen in a Chinese restaurant), and I knocked it open. "Nothing will happen in the future."
This makes me feel good. I searched it with Google. In March, when Uber came to Tempe, local news reports said that if they were riding their own hands to Uber in the test area, they could take a self-driving car. I immediately decided to try it. Then I stood on the side of the road in front of the corner so I could see all the self-driving cars that turned. It took me a long time to wave my hand, but it still thinks it is a good sign. Tempe's temperature reached 85 degrees Fahrenheit (about 29 degrees Celsius) in November, and I was uncomfortable with the heat. But then I was splashed with cold water: my mobile app reminded that Mark had boarded a modern car.
I canceled the order, stopped standing in the same place, and turned to the corner of the bus station to try again. Maybe I need to choose the Uber option, I guess. In the process of waiting for me, two more Volvo passed by me. I tried to stop them and let them stop, but it didn't seem to work. For the two testers, I might just be a laser radar spot; an obstacle that needs to be avoided, and then I challenged the computer with the "tram puzzle." Then my cell phone rang; a Samir came over to me. I cancel again. Uber warned me that I might face penalties because the driver is already in the process of exercising. in
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