India Driving
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN uses it as the classic example of chaotic Indian traffic, especially in threads about self-driving cars and spontaneous order on roads.
What it is
A short 2006 clip of chaotic traffic in India, with cars, bikes and pedestrians weaving around each other and one car going against the flow.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2010 to 2018.
What Hacker News said
Cites justboxing · 2017-07 · on “India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs”
Forget the part about protecting jobs, how confident will the driverless cars companies be even otherwise, sending their cars out into the chaotic traffic in India, where you routinely share the road with bicycles, motorcycles, scooters, rickshaws, handcarts, buses, lorries (trucks), cows and the occasional sheep and donkeys? Related video => [2006] India Driving [this video]
Cites YeGoblynQueenne · 2018-09 · on “Self-Driving Cars Can Handle Neither Rain nor Sleet nor Snow”
>> On the other hand, I'm sure people in India or China will be happy to build and deploy them with much higher failure rates. You might have seen this internet classic: [this video] [India Driving] Driving in India is notoriously chaotic and if self-driving cars are ever deployed there in our lifetime, they will come with a safety guarantee about equal to a car driven by a blind dog with a missing paw. It would be impossible to safely navigate the streets there with anything less situationaly aware than a fully developed adult human brain. The article above makes it sound like weather is the big problem for self-driving cars and once that's solved- wooohoo, we're on our way! It's far from that.