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> "In fact, most people these days are implicitly using maps - how often do people drive to new places without GPS navigation?" I'd argue also they're using ma
by potatolicious 9y ago
> "In fact, most people these days are implicitly using maps - how often do people drive to new places without GPS navigation?"
I'd argue also they're using maps in an even more fundamental way - most driving occurs in places where the driver has already been, and relying on a wetware-stored map is a critical part of safe and effective driving.
Local knowledge - traffic patterns, weird traffic signal setups, difficult lane changes, etc, is pretty critical to driving well.
- yeukhon 9y agoIf I have been to the destination multiple of times, I usually don't open map, I leave my phone off, or I let Pokemon Go running. But sometimes I do use map to seek for alternate faster route if I am in a hurry even if I am familiar with some alternate routes just to be sure. Since I don't use Waze (horrible experience), Google Map won't tell me there's a camera ahead, or police is ahead.
- potatolicious 9y agoRight - I may have phrased my point badly. The idea is that all effective driving relies on pre-mapping, either via digital means (your phone) or human means (your brain). The expectation that self-driving can be perfected without any kind of pre-mapping and the system can behave at high reliably in-situ seems unreasonable. Even humans can't do that.
- cfreeman 9y agoHumans and computers have different strengths though. Just because humans can't do something good doesn't mean computers can't, and vice-versa.
- p1esk 9y agoA map in your head is closer to machine learning than to using GPS.