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The thing about self driving cars is the point at which they become generally viable is defined by human social issues. We could have self-driving cars today.
by comstock 9y ago
The thing about self driving cars is the point at which they become generally viable is defined by human social issues.
We could have self-driving cars today. Heck, we could have had them in the 90s. In limited scenarios, and with some small infrastructure investment.
I don't personally view it as a super-hard technical problem. It is a much much harder social problem.
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y agoYou don't think self-driving is a hard technical problem? Come on man, that's obvious BS.
- averagewall 9y agoI think by "hard" he means "might not achieve it". But they actually already exist, so they're automatically possible.
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y agoThe existing systems could not be defined as self-driving. And the idea that we could have had them in the 90s is ludicrous.
- comstock 9y agoWe did have them in the 90s: http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/robotcars.html http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/robotcars.html http://www.roboticstrends.com/article/back_to_the_future_autonomous_driving_in_1995 http://www.roboticstrends.com/article/back_to_the_future_aut... You seem to have a personal definition of self-driving. What I was saying was to have self driving cars, today you need to: a) resolve the social issues around self driving cars. b) install a small amount of infrastructure to enable self-driving cars/standardize roads.