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Self driving cars are supposedly utilizing AI. If the AI is this fragile, then it is no where near being ready for public consumption.

• MBCook 8y ago
  Which is why they’re not selling it to the public yet. They’re testing. And they NEED a working manual mode for that.
  • village-idiot 8y ago
    They do. But letting their manual operators fall asleep and trigger it is not good at all.
    • sangnoir 8y ago
      Letting a developer drop the production database[1] is not good either, but trusting a person to do their job correctly is baked into every organization and level. Still, accidents happen - there is no fool-proof way to stop humans from behaviours that are ultimately harmful. Elaborate systems will have elaborate loopholes. 1. https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-database-incident/ https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-database-...
      • village-idiot 8y ago
        For certain you cannot prevent all accidents, and I am not trying to say that we can/should. I think having a sole operator in a prototype vehicle drastically increases the odds of these accidents, and that companies like Waymo should run them with two operators and some drowsiness detection systems (which are common on luxury cars). That’s a relatively simple fix. It’s important that testing with multi ton moving vehicles be handled with far more cars than most production databases are, speaking to your metaphor. The consequences of mistakes is much much higher with cars than it is with most databases.