<story><title>Waymo CEO Says Alphabet Unit Plans to Launch Driverless Car Service</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/waymo-ceo-says-driverless-car-service-coming-soon-2018-11-13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rainymood</author><text>Every motorcyclist knows this, yet, driving a motorcycle is so awesome.&lt;p&gt;The danger are other cars on the road. I&amp;#x27;ve been thinking about creating computer vision tech to spot inattentive drivers, it&amp;#x27;s something I think motorcyclists could really benefit from (myself included)</text></item><item><author>cheeze</author><text>Fun fact, you&amp;#x27;re ~25 times more likely to die on a motorcycle mile for mile than a car.&lt;p&gt;Stay safe out there.</text></item><item><author>extesy</author><text>I ride a motorcycle every day as my primary way of commuting to work. The only time in 10+ years I&amp;#x27;ve been in a serious accident is when inattentive car driver rear-ended me on a highway. In his own words: &amp;quot;but I didn&amp;#x27;t see you&amp;quot;. In the bright daylight. I was wearing hi-viz jacket.&lt;p&gt;So I am super excited about any substantial progress in self-driving cars deployment.</text></item><item><author>edoo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m excited.  If you have been alive a substantial amount of time you are easily running a lifetime average of about 1-2% chance of dying in a car accident in your lifetime.  Things have gotten much safer the past couple decades so that number is somewhere around 0.75% or lower now.  I want to say being injured in a car accident is somewhere around 20-30% lifetime chance.  Cars are incredibly dangerous and this will save a ton of lives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kurthr</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve known 3 cyclists killed or severely injured by road debris. At freeway speeds and density there may be no way to avoid going down. It may still be a larger moving vehicle that finishes the job, but once you&amp;#x27;re on the ground you&amp;#x27;re lucky to walk away.</text></comment>
<story><title>Waymo CEO Says Alphabet Unit Plans to Launch Driverless Car Service</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/waymo-ceo-says-driverless-car-service-coming-soon-2018-11-13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rainymood</author><text>Every motorcyclist knows this, yet, driving a motorcycle is so awesome.&lt;p&gt;The danger are other cars on the road. I&amp;#x27;ve been thinking about creating computer vision tech to spot inattentive drivers, it&amp;#x27;s something I think motorcyclists could really benefit from (myself included)</text></item><item><author>cheeze</author><text>Fun fact, you&amp;#x27;re ~25 times more likely to die on a motorcycle mile for mile than a car.&lt;p&gt;Stay safe out there.</text></item><item><author>extesy</author><text>I ride a motorcycle every day as my primary way of commuting to work. The only time in 10+ years I&amp;#x27;ve been in a serious accident is when inattentive car driver rear-ended me on a highway. In his own words: &amp;quot;but I didn&amp;#x27;t see you&amp;quot;. In the bright daylight. I was wearing hi-viz jacket.&lt;p&gt;So I am super excited about any substantial progress in self-driving cars deployment.</text></item><item><author>edoo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m excited.  If you have been alive a substantial amount of time you are easily running a lifetime average of about 1-2% chance of dying in a car accident in your lifetime.  Things have gotten much safer the past couple decades so that number is somewhere around 0.75% or lower now.  I want to say being injured in a car accident is somewhere around 20-30% lifetime chance.  Cars are incredibly dangerous and this will save a ton of lives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rusticpenn</author><text>Similar tech has been done with cameras places in cars, but from a motorbike to monitor cars nearby would not be so easy, if the goal is to monitor the drivers face position (light reflection on glass is a major hurdle, i think). Perhaps it is possible to get the information based on car movement.</text></comment>