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But they will be way better than humans really quickly I'm naturally suspicious of faith-based engineering.

• bsder 11y ago
  > I'm naturally suspicious of faith-based engineering. LOL. I like that comment. However, engineering is part science and part art. The art part often has a significant component of faith. Moore's Law is a good example of faith-based engineering--because we had faith it would happen we committed resources to make it happen. And that operated well for almost 40 years. I view self-driving cars in the same light--there is now faith that it will happen, so people are now committing resources to make it happen. And there don't seem to be any insurmountable problems (the biggest problems are "vision" being power and CPU intensive, but a car is a very high-density power source). I do understand your point, though, initially many people regarded self-driving cars as "AI" and that, of course, remains elusive. However, what the engineers quickly figured out was that you don't need to approach the problem as AI. There are much simpler heuristics--which is not surprising since driving is a background task for most humans.