pj_mukh

28 ms·

601.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
I didn’t sign up to walk and bike with human drivers either (in fact I fight it daily) but here we are. Cruise took 8 years before putting its truly driverless car on the road. “Move fast and break things” is a laughable idea here. I will h
602.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
" A human would not have drug that poor women for 20 feet because " Yea, it would probably be a lot more [1]. This is from...just last week. Its a pretty constant occurence. Its only in the paper of record because it happened in N
603.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
“Human drivers are the status quo” And I have REAMS of data showing how the status quo is unacceptable. Humans are impetuous, impatient, emotional, inconsistent and terribly distracted. Just a slow rolling, ongoing, widespread disaster on t
604.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
This is just..more paperwork, but sure, highly unlikely that these companies don't have this report built internally already. And like I said, there will be scenarios not covered by it, because we simply don't know what they are a
605.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
"AVs are not better than the status quo" We don't have the data to claim this, this confidently, and the only way to get the data is let the experiment keep running in the real world (only place that matters). There will ob
606.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
Whether the corporate honchos are "sincere" or not is wholly irrelevant to me (and frankly unknowable). "Think of the children" is usually a vapid misdirect, except of course in the objective measurable leading cause of
607.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
A humans awareness is not constant. It waxes and wanes, even more so with cellphones in hand. The status quo is indefensible so setting up moving unknowable goal posts for something to replace them doesn’t make sense to me. This particular
608.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
“ They should not only not cause incidents, they should also not make existing incidents far worse because of terrible decisions.” Just FYI, it made this terrible decision because people were mad at cruise for stopping in the middle of the
609.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
I'm not sure why you're comparing fatality miles vs no-fatality-accident-that-cruise-didn't-cause miles (i.e. we have no idea how safe Cruise would be if there were no human drivers on the road) That's not even close to
610.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
"The stat quoted by nyt is how frequently the AVs initiate an RA session. Of those, many are resolved by the AV itself before the human even looks at things, since we often have the AV initiate proactively and before it is certain it w
611.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
Just FYI, Most autonomous car companies have backup drivers. Its the disengagement rate that drives the number of operators you need per driver and therefore the economics. Theoretically, this rate should be improving steadily at all these
612.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
Hmm? I saw it exactly the opposite. A lot of people in the autonomous driving industry are driven by exactly what Vogt describes (little girl in the stroller etc.). See also Chris Urmson of Waymo fame's TED talk, he talks about a simil
613.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
Exactly, which explains why app based platforms that underpay are so popular.
614.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
Maybe I'm being overly-simplistic, but what a lot of these folks are actually aiming for is closest approximated to being "Trust fund kids". Digging even deeper based on some conversations I've had with friends, a lot of
615.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
Yes it’s a well researched issue [1]. Under-resourced underpaid School teachers burning out and senior programmers mentoring students to stop burning out are sorta tangential issues. I’m not advocating putting senior programmers into full t
616.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
Idea: One of the best things you can do if you are burnt out from a job (esp in tech) is to teach. To see that spark in someone else’s eyes can reignite the spark in yours. I wonder if large companies (looking at you FAANG) would be down to
617.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
This seems obvious in the new social media. Say something boring and true and don't get attention. Say something counter culture, evocative but ultimately wrong (or atleast not durable as an idea). Get attention. Rinse. Repeate.
618.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
“ the way we're trying to address abusive policing is misguided” and as a result we have no enforcement now That’s all I’m saying.
619.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
Well enforcement is down through the floor. You can measure that [1]. Cops claim it’s because of too much regulation (regulations put in place because of bad cops). It doesn’t really matter if they’re lying or not, there’s now no enforcemen
620.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
I literally said “earnestly or not”. It doesn’t really matter what the underlying truth is, it’s an excuse, let’s remove it. No more SWAT teams needed if it’s just robots doing tracking and catching.
621.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
Right but that behavior is driven (either earnestly or not) by safety concerns for the cops. Lets remove that concern, no excuses left.
622.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
You’re making my point. Humans are prone to this sort of largesse and they use human safety as an excuse to do so (“why don’t you want our cops safe?”). Let’s remove that excuse.
623.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
I live in the Bay Area. And this is basically the mentality spreading through most large cities.
624.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
I'm assuming of course we have some political control here. Just a walking robot was shamed out of existence [1]. So the public has some control over what is and isn't acceptable. We don't need to accept lethal robots, but wh
625.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
Controversial Opinion: This is a good idea. There is zero need to make these Black Mirror lethal but tracking and apprehending is a scary job and Cops are human (there are also bad cops). Automating that process seems like Step 1 to getting
626.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
Paper seems really thin on details on how the targets are initialized. It mentions a "foundation detector" and claims its better than YOLO results, but then routes that conversation to the Ultralytics library (which has implementa
627.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
Controversial Opinion: I think the tablet controls hidden behind extra menu buttons is just a stopgap until a GPT takeover of those controls. I should just be able to talk to the car to do what I need it to do. That would be truly minimalis
628.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
I think this is only complicated because people aren’t able to hold competing thoughts in their heads. There was a man who was massively effective in getting multiple once-in—a-generation revolutionary companies of the ground by sheer grind
629.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
"population growth - you know this isn't a thing right? " well then you can definitely put away your dreams of a magical $2.50 pod travel. You need people, more people, young people to build all that. And if we're sayi
630.
by pj_mukh 3y ago
It takes 40 mins to go 3 miles using a car too at most peak times. It’s obviously not fair to compare a perfect autonomous transportation method with the current imperfect state of public transit. As the population grows the driving times w

More ›