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But pehaps infinity more challenging

• wpietri 8y ago
  Yup. Our tolerance for failure is orders of magnitude lower for household appliances than cars. My robot vaccum can't make it a week without doing something where it needs human intervention. I'm also very forgiving in my interactions with it: I move out of the way, I pick up things in front of it, and I just ignore when it bumps into me. That tolerance goes away when it's a high-powered 1-ton machine with the potential to kill dozens with one error, one that has to work flawlessly in a very quirky environment tuned for human perceptions and expert human users. There is no piece of software (or software-driven hardware) I've used where I'd say: "Yes, this is at a level where I'd trust it unsupervised when lives are at stake." I think anybody expecting robot cars in the next few years will be wildly disappointed.