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So why are people still driving cars? Why are there still Uber, delivery and truck drivers? 99.99% of vehicles are driven by humans. It's like saying we have f

So why are people still driving cars? Why are there still Uber, delivery and truck drivers? 99.99% of vehicles are driven by humans. It's like saying we have flying cars. Sure, working prototypes have existed for some time now. There were (are?) companies making them. But it makes no real world difference. In the context of "no more programming", it makes no difference if some fancy AI model can in theory replace programmers, if they don't actually end up doing that on any real scale.

Animats 3y ago
> So why are people still driving cars? Because it costs Waymo about US$200,000 per car, not including the operating and maintenance staff. It will get cheaper.
wruza 3y ago
Because they are poor, also because of regulations crippling fsd (for better or worse).
- scruple 3y ago
  What are the regulations preventing FSD?
  - vrighter 3y ago
    stuff like needing to take responsibility and accountability, if you are also taking control. Ewww, what a horrible concept that stifles innovation!
  - wruza 3y ago
    E.g. keep your hands on a wheel, be present and in a driver's seat. Anything unlike getting a cab.
p1esk 3y ago
You do realize the first ever decent AI has appeared less than a year ago? It’s available to anyone today for $20/mo, and it will get better and better every year. What we have now was considered pure science fiction just five years ago, a hypothetical technology - decades away at best. Why are people still driving cars? Because the autonomous driving technology wasn’t good until very recently. It has improved a lot in just the last few years, and you can already see self driving cars operating commercially in several cities. Again, it will get better every year, and as it gets better it will spread everywhere. It’s true that flying cars exist but haven’t become popular or widespread. I’m not entirely sure why. But it is much easier to ask ChatGPT to write some code than to actually try out a flying car.

Animats 3y ago

> So why are people still driving cars? Because it costs Waymo about US$200,000 per car, not including the operating and maintenance staff. It will get cheaper.

wruza 3y ago

Because they are poor, also because of regulations crippling fsd (for better or worse).

scruple 3y ago
What are the regulations preventing FSD?
- vrighter 3y ago
  stuff like needing to take responsibility and accountability, if you are also taking control. Ewww, what a horrible concept that stifles innovation!
- wruza 3y ago
  E.g. keep your hands on a wheel, be present and in a driver's seat. Anything unlike getting a cab.

p1esk 3y ago

You do realize the first ever decent AI has appeared less than a year ago? It’s available to anyone today for $20/mo, and it will get better and better every year. What we have now was considered pure science fiction just five years ago, a hypothetical technology - decades away at best. Why are people still driving cars? Because the autonomous driving technology wasn’t good until very recently. It has improved a lot in just the last few years, and you can already see self driving cars operating commercially in several cities. Again, it will get better every year, and as it gets better it will spread everywhere. It’s true that flying cars exist but haven’t become popular or widespread. I’m not entirely sure why. But it is much easier to ask ChatGPT to write some code than to actually try out a flying car.