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If control by human is so poor, this is a huge murder vehicle. Sure the systems are improving, but programmers should see all sorts of problems with this that c

• ajross 5y ago
  > If [... then] this is a huge murder vehicle Stop it. Waymo vehicles (Tesla autonomy too, FWIW) are extremely safe, that is just an experimental fact. The circumstance in question here has nothing to do with safety, really. The bug is that it caused a traffic obstruction while the (human) operators attempted to get the car oriented. Hyperbolizing the circumstances is really not appropriate. This was not a safety situation, really, at any point.
  • carapace 5y ago
    You stop it. They are testing huge, fast robots in public streets. It's messed up. There's a joke among cyclists: "If you want to get away with killing someone just be sure that you're driving a car and they're riding a bike." We could make a similar joke about these killer robot cars. "If you want to test killer robots on the public just make sure they are shaped like cars." (And if you need to, you can throw in a "safety driver" as a sort of moral crumple zone to deflect the blame when your robot kills e.g. Elaine Herzberg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg#Aftermath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg#After... ) - - - - We could build self-driving golf carts (slow, light, not so capable of killing) and work up to cars, eh? We don't have to go straight to fast heavy cars, eh?
  • loopz 5y ago
    Chill. It should just give pause for thought, not stop thought.