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Without commenting on this particular technological advance, it did make me think of the early days of the automobile https://amp.detroitnews.com/amp/26312107
by kthejoker2 6y ago
Without commenting on this particular technological advance, it did make me think of the early days of the automobile
https://amp.detroitnews.com/amp/26312107 https://amp.detroitnews.com/amp/26312107
My key takeaway is regulation of advanced technology lags waaaaaaay behind the disruption caused by the technology.
- 1337shadow 6y agoIs it really possible to regulate without any experience at all ? I thought regulation was something that you could define based on a sufficiently widespread practice.
- timmytokyo 6y agoI can guarantee you that if Tesla's auto-driving starts killing people, there will be near-instant regulation. For that reason alone, supporters of auto-driving technology should be aghast at what Tesla is doing.
- Espressosaurus 6y agoIt has already killed three people. The question is how many more will it kill before real regulation starts hitting? Waymo has been conservative, which is the right way to go about this. The number of outright faulty actions I'm seeing on these videos is terrifying. Pedestrians and other cars on the road didn't ask to be part of this live fire experiment.
- Pfhreak 6y ago>Is it really possible to regulate without any experience at all ? Yes. You can absolutely set safety metrics and boundaries. They might not be perfect, but as you get experience you refine those boundaries. Just like settings alarms in web services -- you have a sense of roughly where the performance should be, and you set some alarms. You iterate on those alarms as you get data, but you still absolutely have a sense of what's roughly appropriate from the start.