Self-driving cars

ferrari · 07-05-2016, 09:42 PM

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Humans will always come up with ways to drive stupidly that even the latest algorithm will not anticipate.

In the case of the poor guy in the Tesla, he disregarded Tesla's own advice and took his eyes off the road, then encountered a situation that the algorithm did not anticipate--a white truck-trailer directly cross-wise against a background against which the trailer did not stand out.

If you live by the algorithm, you may die by the algorithm.

Good summation frankbell. 100% agreement with that.

ferrari · 07-05-2016, 09:46 PM

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If we were going to the moon, would you like some math involved?

Completely irrelevant to this situation. Totally different levels of technological and environmental complexities involved. Mixing human operated vehicles and driver-less vehicles together is not ideal IMHO.

jamison20000e · 07-05-2016, 09:57 PM

Perhaps this will be something to look back on someday then; Moore's Law may not fit perfectly either but we'll see?

sundialsvcs · 07-05-2016, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by frankbell

in the case of the poor guy in the tesla, he disregarded tesla's own advice and took his eyes off the road, then encountered a situation that the algorithm did not anticipate--a white truck-trailer ...

***tweet!*** **reality(!!!)-**check here!!

WHAT ABOUT THE GODDAMN DRIVER OF THE TRUCK?!?!?! ...

"Uh huh, yeah, him?"

"Made a perfectly-ordinary left turn out of a driveway, driving an ordinary happens-to-be-white delivery truck, which happens to have to have been to have been too-close in proximity to a rapidly-moving vehicle "occupied" (but, not driven") by a cyber-geek who trusted Technology too much."

C'mon ... let us, for once, "think from the perspective of that truck driver!"

"That truck driver" was slammed into ... and, under slightly different circumstances, might easily have been killed(!) ... by ... a rapidly-moving X-thousand-pound motor vehicle "that was not 'driven' by 'a human being!"

Should said truck driver "merely" take solace, today, in "better him than me?" Absolutely not! He ought to be right-now suing Google (et al ...) for every penny that they might be worth, for having subjected him to the (literal ...) risk of Death that he otherwise surely would have faced, had he happened to have been driving a Soul instead of a Truck!

"C'mon ... for once," Think Like A Lawyer!!"

jamison20000e · 07-05-2016, 11:37 PM

Biased processing, now can we think as the software?

Edit.

jamison20000e · 07-05-2016, 11:56 PM

Whoops... (obviously not,,, yet!

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Doug G · 07-06-2016, 12:22 AM

Human driven vehicles slaughter around 100 people a day on the roads in this country, and you're all worried about self-driving cars? The insurance industry is worried because self-driving cars have already proved to be much safer, and there have been analyses postulating that self-driving cars will be the death of the consumer auto insurance business.

If it had been a self-driving truck the self-driving Tesla probably wouldn't have crashed.

jamison20000e · 07-06-2016, 12:35 AM

Perhaps the worry is x (*) 7,000,000,000;( let "god" sort them out?)

jamison20000e · 07-13-2016, 06:27 PM

If every electron should be in charge of itself at all times then give us all the bomb ie x 7,000,000,000!

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MAKING ALL CARS DRIVERLESS WOULD REDUCE EMISSIONS BY 90 PERCENT
THE GREEN ARGUMENT FOR DRIVERLESS CARS

http://www.popsci.com/green-argument...m=&utm_source=

Simple evolution my dear watt...

Myk267 · 07-13-2016, 07:00 PM

If you let go of the steering wheel with the cruise-control on, every car becomes self-driving, at least for a while.

jamison20000e · 07-13-2016, 07:03 PM

True ghost style.

Fixit7 · 07-13-2016, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Doug G

Human driven vehicles slaughter around 100 people a day on the roads in this country, and you're all worried about self-driving cars? The insurance industry is worried because self-driving cars have already proved to be much safer, and there have been analyses postulating that self-driving cars will be the death of the consumer auto insurance business.

If it had been a self-driving truck the self-driving Tesla probably wouldn't have crashed.

Gee, I suppose all the lives saved makes it worth it if the insurance companies get a little less income. :-)

Reckin lawyers are against self-driving cars too.

jamison20000e · 07-14-2016, 07:57 AM

Off topic, as I don't want to dig up these threads right now: http://www.ewao.com/a/23736/
http://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...-solar-energy/