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> Until you can meet my use case, a common one for an Uber driver, self driving cars are empty hype. For you. The semi-autonomy we have now- not "this vehicle
by HeWhoLurksLate 7y ago
> Until you can meet my use case, a common one for an Uber driver, self driving cars are empty hype.
For you. The semi-autonomy we have now- not "this vehicle will get me from point A to point B without need for intervention- but "this vehicle can take out some amount of the area between points A and B" is incredibly useful. I don't know how hard it is for you to keep going straight while fumbling about with a hamburger- I'm not that great at it- but if I can get a bot to help me steer in a relatively straight path and keep me in my lane while I take my jacket off because I'm beginning to sweat, send a message or place a call (having something make that easier is also useful), fire at an armed robber, or let me give more attention to a child who needs it, I will be safer.
- spookthesunset 7y agoNice for you until the “self driving” car gets into an accident and kills the other driver. You don’t get 50% attention with driving. It’s either 100% or 0%. Anything other than that will put everybody else on the road at risk. If you are driving around in your Tesla using its adaptive cruise control and not paying attention to your driving... I can only hope the accident you will eventually cause hurts nobody but yourself.
- jaxn 7y agoI have easily driven 12,000 miles under autopilot and regularly do the kind of tasks the parent described. Maybe I will have an accident and comments like this one will age poorly. Or maybe we will find that the scary technology wasn't as scary as first thought.