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> Yet somehow, humans can drive cars with just a pair of optical sensors (mounted on a swivelling gimbal, of sorts). In fairness, humans have a lot more than j
by cbsmith 4y ago
> Yet somehow, humans can drive cars with just a pair of optical sensors (mounted on a swivelling gimbal, of sorts).
In fairness, humans have a lot more than just optical sensors at their disposal, and are pretty terrible drivers. We've added all kinds of safety features to cars and roads to try to compensate for their weaknesses, and it certainly helps, but they still make mistakes with alarming regularity, and they crash all the time.
When you have a human driver, conversations about safety and sensor information seem so straightforward. The idea of a car maker saving a buck by foregoing some tool or technology at the expense of safety is largely a non-starter.
What's weird is, with a computer driver, (which has unique advantages and disadvantages as compared to a human driver) the conversation is somehow entirely different.
- tibbydudeza 4y agoMy kid took 12 driving lessons of an hour long before she could drive stick shift on a road albeit very slowly.
- camgunz 4y ago> We've added all kinds of safety features to cars and roads to try to compensate for their weaknesses This is a super important point. Whenever self-driving cars comes up in conversation it's like, "we're spending billions of dollars on self-driving cars tech, but what if we just, idk, had rails instead of roads". We're putting all the complexity on the self-driving tech, but it seems pretty clear that if we helped a little on the other end (made driving easier for computers), everything would get better a lot faster.