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> If someone decides to prank a desolate stretch of road with tens of stop stings every 5 meters, you are going to have some very broken self driving cars. The
by martindbp 5y ago
> If someone decides to prank a desolate stretch of road with tens of stop stings every 5 meters, you are going to have some very broken self driving cars.
Then some pranksters would end up with big fines or go to jail? Just like if they drop water balloons onto cars on the freeway from a bridge?
- intended 5y agoSure, but thats irrelevant - whether gangs hunt autonomous cars to kidnap their owners, or people play simple pranks - they point being that humans know how to handle those situations and either avoid or ignore them. No amount of driving focused ML/AI is going to help with that.
- martindbp 5y agoI don't think those are very real concerns. If you have roaming gangs kidnapping car owners you have other problems to deal with. But either way, it seems like the naysayers here for some reason just don't want self-driving cars to happen, and are finding any and all excuses for why they will never work. I'm saying that if there's a will there's a way. We've made way larger sacrifices for other modes of transportation in the past. I'm guessing these are the same people that would have claimed that cars are impossible because nobody would want to build tens of thousands of gas stations to accommodate cars etc. Compared to the changes we've made for cars, even designing our entire cities around them, the changes needed for self driving are minuscule. The benefits are maybe not the same but it's certainly the biggest revolution in transport since the airplane.