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Does automated factory equipment with a human overseeing its operation and correcting error cases sound like real progress over what came before? If so, why doe
by chc 12y ago
Does automated factory equipment with a human overseeing its operation and correcting error cases sound like real progress over what came before? If so, why doesn't it sound like progress when we have an automated truck with a human overseeing its operation and correcting error cases?
- MichaelApproved 12y agoThough, I agree this is progress, I don't think your analogy is correct here. The progress you're referring to allows 1 person to oversee machines that do several people's work. 1 person = 10 jobs. With the trucks, you have the same person overseeing his own job, except that it'll be done safer. 1 person = 1 job (safer). Your analogy would make more sense if the trucks were remotely supervised and 1 person could oversee several trucks via remote connection.
- marcosdumay 11y ago> Your analogy would make more sense if the trucks were remotely supervised and 1 person could oversee several trucks via remote connection. How long until they get there? It does not look like a huge change from the person on a wheel. Automatic cars wouldn't be allowed at the roads in one step.
- gtirloni 11y agoIn time, all of that will happen. Right now there is too much (warranted) skepticism that society won't let a driverless truck running around alone. In a few years, after proving that the number of incidents is much less than with human drivers, everybody won't care.
- trimble-alum 11y agoToyota is returning back to artisanal skill as the basis for automation.