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> “What we tell people is, ‘Please be lawful and please be considerate,’” Andrew Ng, a machine learning researcher whose venture fund invests in driverless star
by mtgx 8y ago
> “What we tell people is, ‘Please be lawful and please be considerate,’” Andrew Ng, a machine learning researcher whose venture fund invests in driverless startups, told Bloomberg.
This is like web developers criticizing users for using their website "wrong". Unless Andrew Ng has found a way to eliminate all crime on Earth, then I sure hope the startups he's investing in don't actually count on "people being lawful", and they make sure their cars are safe even when people aren't lawful.
- jobigoud 8y agoJaywalking is not illegal in most places. Relying on this would severely restrict the market of autonomous cars.
- repsilat 8y agoMm. Also: it seems just as easy to me for self-driving cars to have exactly the opposite effect on how we view jaywalking -- if the cars are more attentive and more careful than human drivers (or if they will be), then jaywalking could become significantly safer. Maybe you would discourage it to keep traffic flowing, and I can see how the people writing the software want to make their own lives easier, but as their software gets better it might not be so necessary. (Cynically, changing pedestrian norms to make the driving task more difficult could also make life better not just for pedestrians but for a company with a technology head-start like Waymo. And it might make driving yourself around more annoying too, which could be good for them.)