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> Personally the only justification I've heard for self-driving cars being safer is "computers are faster than people". Yes- but at what? Faster at making the
by nkrisc 7y ago
> Personally the only justification I've heard for self-driving cars being safer is "computers are faster than people". Yes- but at what?
Faster at making the right decision - and the wrong decision too.
- jaxn 7y agoComputers can "watch" every direction at once.
- rootusrootus 7y agoBut can they remember that they just saw something that is not visible any more because it went behind another object?
- EForEndeavour 7y agoThey'll also happily be fooled by adversarial patches (optical illusions) in ways that wouldn't fool humans. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/8/18297410/ai-tesla-self-driving-cars-adversarial-machine-learning https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/8/18297410/ai-tesl...
- Robotbeat 7y agoAnd humans are happily fooled by conditions (optical illusions, rain) in ways that wouldn't fool machines. https://xkcd.com/1958/ https://xkcd.com/1958/ If you want to murder people on the roadway, there are lots of ways to do this that are easier than fancy adversarial attacks (which only fool one sensor type, at best... and are then patched).