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I'm unnerved by the anthropomorphism of "driver". What would we think of a human saying "I've got 100+ years sim experience but out on the street I need safety
by lolc 7y ago
I'm unnerved by the anthropomorphism of "driver". What would we think of a human saying "I've got 100+ years sim experience but out on the street I need safety watch." It obviously means their "driver's" sum of experience doesn't account for much.
The closest you could compare human actions to what their machine is doing is "dreaming". When we dream, we improve our reactions without having to go through the actual situation. But again, picture this human saying "I'm a safe driver because I've dreamt about driving a lot!"
Now you could say that theirs is just a product name. Surely they'd agree machines are different. And maybe I'm pedantic when I say they shouldn't use words that liken their system to a human. Still I think it's important to acknowledge that machines will refuse to drive like we do. Our driving is too probabilistic on multiple levels.
I think we wouldn't be stuck in uncanny valley if it were acknowledged that first we have to equip highways and participants on them with transponders. Then we can let the machines take over on boring, predictable highways.