I just... I don't know how I feel about this. How are they going to know when to accurately merge on a freeway? To actually yield properly? How good are the sensors at detecting people? I just see a horrible grand theft auto like rogue self-driving car......
Might be a little late for me to trust this. I need to carefully watch where my autopilot takes me in urban waterways. Coming up the Columbia simple was irratic when passing through a railroad bridge that was swung open near Vancouver. Coming up the Sacramento River, we took a hard right passing under overhead powerlines. Took manual control but I could not get back on a reliable AP course for half mile or so away from the lines. The next power lines only about two miles away, had no effect. It's one thing to encounter this glitch at 6 knots, quite another at 60 I think.
I trust them more then someone eating fries and chatting with their BFF about how Stan snd Veronica broke up cause Stan was caught masterbating to a picture of a racehorse.
I am working on an AI/Machine Learning project at work now. I am really impressed with what these guys are doing with the self-driving cars already - and the amazing thing is that these things will likely be twice as good as they are now in a year.
the interesting thing will be collision avoidance. if someone steps out into traffic, will the computer decide to drive you off a cliff in order to save the pedestrian from being run over? or just decide to run the person over thus saving the passenger?
It's the fear of having your car hacked that freaks me out with this system...if you want robotics driving...take the subway or high speed rail...I don't trust elevators....cars....I'm not trusting self driving cars.
How do you feel about a taxi, bus or plane? You know those are controlled by people you don’t personally know and trust. Seems much scarier than the chance that you will be the one selected to crash by some foreigners or black ops folks.
I don't trust anybody drivin' me around...I've had some close calls in taxis around the world....but we're talkin' cars...I want the control...and I can't fly...so no choice there
Just another priveledge for the moronic masses to give up. I bet we will still have to pay insurance though, and be liable when these devices inevitably fuck up. Soon enough people won't know how to do jack shit, most already don't. I'm so glad my dad and other figures in my life taught me basic skills. Do you ever meet someone, then imagine them in an apocalypse scenario and say to yourself: "yep, he's dead" All. Day. Long.
Why the automatic? By the reasoning above - you should not have bought it. I also hope that non of your cars have power steering, power windows and other such frivolities.
Same with my 1993 Miata or my old Alfa Romeos - but the reality is that self-driving cars make a lot of sense in many instances. Maris's analogy of self-driving cars to a self-eating steak makes no sense. The value of the steak is in the nutrition it provides. The value of a car is in it's ability to get the user from point-a to point-b at the time he wants without having to wait for shared rides. A self-driving car can do it - the "self-driving" part is not about the car wondering about as it pleases - it is about automating another part of the "chore" of driving. It is basically doing to steering the same thing that an automatic box did for transmission and power-windows did to the manual cranking windows.
