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What is the value of a "computer" that does math barely faster than a human? What is the value of a motorized vehicle that is slower and more expensive than a

• falcolas 10y ago
  What is the use of a laserdisk system? What is the use of Moller Sky Cars? What is the use asbestos? For every successful technology, another ten technologies have fallen by the wayside due to cost, complexity, or unknown unknowns. I firmly see self driving cars in that category until a fundamental shift in our ability to program occurs. My ultimate fear is that the programs that will be responsible for making hundreds of decisions every second are still being written by people like us. Not NASA engineers, who will spend millions of dollars verifying all of their code; who spend years writing a few thousand lines of code to an incredibly tight spec. Instead, they are people who are looking at data and going "that's our integration testing right there." Who write big, complicated bits of code which takes several seconds to render text on our screens and think "Yeah, that's good enough." Who look at accidents their cars have been in and go, "That's totally the driver's fault," instead of saying, "Here's how we will stop that from ever happening again."