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This is my thinking as well. As a Chicago driver I have to admit there's a great deal of fuzzy logic in driving. Considering the last high profile crash was Tes
by drzaiusapelord 10y ago
This is my thinking as well. As a Chicago driver I have to admit there's a great deal of fuzzy logic in driving. Considering the last high profile crash was Tesla saying "Whoops, I guess we never tested blue trucks driving against a blue sky!" If they can't handle simple cases like this, how can they handle pedestrians jaywalking, cyclists doing dangerous end runs around your car, black ice, inches of snow, etc. I have little faith that this is a simple computer science problem that will be solved "any day now." Hell, looking at what passes for production code generally is scary. I really don't want to have as many real life crashes as software crashes on my PC.
I think the typical low information futurist brigade is driving this narrative and they haven't critically looked at what fully autonomous really means. The hype will wear off soon as we keep seeing crashes and other issues. I think the idea that cars will go from dumb to autonmous overnight is foolish. We'll have years/decades of smarter driver assist and maybe someday allow autonomous after a very long process of working out the kinks, certification, regulation, etc. Even then it'll probably only be highway driving or in low congestion areas far from pedestrians, strollers, and cyclists.
There are probably other use cases that'll be approved sooner than later like slow moving garbage trucks with autonomous robot arms picking up trash cans. Or autonomous street cleaning cars. That's assuming the crony public sector unions allow them.