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When I was a kid there was a cartoon where a truck painting a white line in the middle of the road, drove off a cliff for some reason (and therefore, so did the
by bambax 9y ago
When I was a kid there was a cartoon where a truck painting a white line in the middle of the road, drove off a cliff for some reason (and therefore, so did the line).
The punchline was that all the other cars also fell off the cliff because they were following the line instead of looking at the road.
It's crazy to think, that's where we are now with so-called self-driving cars.
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoWhen I was a kid there was a computer game called Lemmings... What if all the connected autoupdating self driving cars suddenly learn to follow each other off a cliff in pursuit of an optimisation gone wrong. It would be ironic if the Bulterian Jihad[1] were kicked off as a result of Elon Musk's machinations. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad