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Heffalump Trap

posted by martyb on Friday November 17 2017, @10:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the engineers-need-artists-to-keep-them-honest dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A very clever (imo) artist has developed a simple trap for autonomous cars --
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thuN2HD6m2s
Less than 90 seconds of video, no sound. If you get it right away it's only a minute.

Oh, and if you didn't get the title, there is this,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heffalump

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by requerdanos on Saturday November 18 2017, @02:07AM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Saturday November 18 2017, @02:07AM (#598505) Journal

    is [this car] like an undergraduate's Senior project or something? If not, I have zero confidence that I'll live to see autonomous cars in practical action.

    I have had near-zero confidence that we'll have self-driving cars anytime soon for *years*, for the reason that tftp phrases so eloquently elsewhere in the thread...

    The [rules] by which the world operates [are] extremely complex. A human child, a construct that is considerably more complex than a computer, needs about 20 years to learn the basics.

    But complex rules and my lack of confidence don't seem to be slowing the self-driving-car people down much at all.

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