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And in 5 years they will be "just around the corner" again. There's so many hurdles before it becomes something that is commonplace or accepted, that really it

And in 5 years they will be "just around the corner" again. There's so many hurdles before it becomes something that is commonplace or accepted, that really it's decades around the corner. The technical hurdles to get to level 4 and 5 are just the start. Once you get past that, there's going to be a whole slew of legal and public opinion challenges. The first time an autonomous vehicle is involved in an accident that kills a few kids, you'll have a Challenger level probe to figure out what happened and probably a whole revamp of safety measures. Don't count your chickens yet.

lxmorj 9y ago
Maybe. Where's our Challenger level probe for mass shootings?
- randallsquared 9y ago
  Pending an accidental mass shooting.
- joejerryronnie 9y ago
  The anology would be an accidental mass shooting by an autonomous security bot.
glibgil 9y ago
This transition, for most, is as casual as two people deciding who is going to drive. There’s simply a different driver available and the convenience of that will make the acceptance of autonomous vehicles happen very quickly
YeGoblynQueenne 9y ago
>> The first time an autonomous vehicle is involved in an accident that kills a few kids, you'll have a Challenger level probe to figure out what happened and probably a whole revamp of safety measures. Although I have serious reservations about the safety of autonomous vehicles, or at least our ability to predict it (see earlier comment referencing a RAND corp study of the subject) I'm afraid that running over kids with an auto-car is not going to be such big news as it perhaps should be. For instance- can you remember the first time in history when an automobile ran over a child, or even several children at once? Rhetorical question- you most likely can't. Because it was never such a big issue to go down in history as the "Minors Motor Massacre" or whatever. And there most likely was no Challenger-level probe into the whys and wheretofores of that first time, either. Besides, remember that, for many, many decades people drove around in cars that had no provision for driver safety. For instance, seat belts were first adopted by big car manufacturers in the early '50s and made compulsory by law for the first time in the '70s. It's clear that most of the world cares a lot more about fast, efficient transport than about safe transport.

lxmorj 9y ago

Maybe. Where's our Challenger level probe for mass shootings?

randallsquared 9y ago
Pending an accidental mass shooting.
joejerryronnie 9y ago
The anology would be an accidental mass shooting by an autonomous security bot.

glibgil 9y ago

This transition, for most, is as casual as two people deciding who is going to drive. There’s simply a different driver available and the convenience of that will make the acceptance of autonomous vehicles happen very quickly

YeGoblynQueenne 9y ago

>> The first time an autonomous vehicle is involved in an accident that kills a few kids, you'll have a Challenger level probe to figure out what happened and probably a whole revamp of safety measures. Although I have serious reservations about the safety of autonomous vehicles, or at least our ability to predict it (see earlier comment referencing a RAND corp study of the subject) I'm afraid that running over kids with an auto-car is not going to be such big news as it perhaps should be. For instance- can you remember the first time in history when an automobile ran over a child, or even several children at once? Rhetorical question- you most likely can't. Because it was never such a big issue to go down in history as the "Minors Motor Massacre" or whatever. And there most likely was no Challenger-level probe into the whys and wheretofores of that first time, either. Besides, remember that, for many, many decades people drove around in cars that had no provision for driver safety. For instance, seat belts were first adopted by big car manufacturers in the early '50s and made compulsory by law for the first time in the '70s. It's clear that most of the world cares a lot more about fast, efficient transport than about safe transport.