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Sorry, but have you driven in a city in India or Indonesia? Just for example? My favorite example is a major intersection with no traffic lights. Everyone just
by virtualritz 2y ago
Sorry, but have you driven in a city in India or Indonesia? Just for example?
My favorite example is a major intersection with no traffic lights. Everyone just drives onto it and then you get a sticky sauce of cars that move at a fraction of the allowed max speed until they leave the intersection again.
Horns and eye contact are used to negotiate progress by all paricipants. I would love to see a "self driving" car on such an intersection.
My guess is a video of this car's encounter would go absultely viral. But not for the reasons proponents of this tech hope for. ;)
- grecy 2y agoOf course, a self driving car not trained for that situation would do as badly as a brand new 16 year old driver. Just like the newbie it will learn, and get as good or better than everyone else.
- virtualritz 2y agoYeah, it's the eye contact part that I'm really curious to see the self driving car learn.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoOh you will, soon. Eye contact itself isn't hard, given it's 99% in the mind of the beholder anyway. You'll see it and then either regret it, or join the cohort of people saying it's not true eye contact because there is no soul behind the window of machine eyes; mimicking the current talk that LLMs are just stochastic parrots without a mind behind them.
- Earw0rm 2y agoIf it communicates intent (or even just allows the observer to predict future behaviour - if we're not willing to ascribe "intent" to a robot), it doesn't matter whether it's a plausible soul or not. At that point we're basically talking autonomous cars with big external-facing emoji screens. "That Fiat is looking red in the face, it's about to cut in". That's more communication and emotional bandwidth than 99% of driver-to-driver interactions. Someone cuts in and you flip them the finger, how often to they even see it?