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As a human with a driver's license, I'd say the job of driving a car demands ~1% of my mental system features. Here's a few skills of my brain not needed for d

As a human with a driver's license, I'd say the job of driving a car demands ~1% of my mental system features. Here's a few skills of my brain not needed for driving, - compose poetry and alternate lyrics to "baby shark" - recognize emotions on faces - form opinions about music, movies, video games, etc. - have a conversation - remember that time I embarrassed myself in sixth grade - contemplate my own existence - divide other people into friend/enemy groups - etc...

naebother 6y ago
> recognize emotions on faces I'd argue this is a required skill occasionally, at least when you find yourself in a 4-way stop deadlock.
- macintux 6y ago
  I find it depressing that cars aren't already talking to each other. I drive on a lot of winding, rural roads with zero visibility around the bend; I'd love to know that there's a car coming the other direction, even with no driving assist technologies at play.
  - naebother 6y ago
    Don't even need two way communication for that I think. A radar should do the trick (although the example video only shows it from a stationary vehicle) https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2020/06/24/new-radar-lets-cars-spot-hazards-around-corners https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2020/06/24/new-radar-...
NoodleIncident 6y ago
You still might need a functioning "vertical slice" of human-level AI to implement FSD, though. Leaving out irrelevant tasks doesn't make the one remaining task any easier.
justapassenger 6y ago
The question isn't if driving the car requires you to know how to write poetry. It's if complexity of how our brain works, that enables you to be able to write poetry is also requirement to drive a car in real world, unpredictable environments.
thaumasiotes 6y ago
In contrast, also as a human with a driver's license, I find that having a conversation conflicts pretty severely with the job of driving a car.

naebother 6y ago

> recognize emotions on faces I'd argue this is a required skill occasionally, at least when you find yourself in a 4-way stop deadlock.

macintux 6y ago
I find it depressing that cars aren't already talking to each other. I drive on a lot of winding, rural roads with zero visibility around the bend; I'd love to know that there's a car coming the other direction, even with no driving assist technologies at play.
- naebother 6y ago
  Don't even need two way communication for that I think. A radar should do the trick (although the example video only shows it from a stationary vehicle) https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2020/06/24/new-radar-lets-cars-spot-hazards-around-corners https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2020/06/24/new-radar-...

NoodleIncident 6y ago

You still might need a functioning "vertical slice" of human-level AI to implement FSD, though. Leaving out irrelevant tasks doesn't make the one remaining task any easier.

justapassenger 6y ago

The question isn't if driving the car requires you to know how to write poetry. It's if complexity of how our brain works, that enables you to be able to write poetry is also requirement to drive a car in real world, unpredictable environments.

thaumasiotes 6y ago

In contrast, also as a human with a driver's license, I find that having a conversation conflicts pretty severely with the job of driving a car.