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

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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @09:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @09:03AM (#598603)
    Not really. A human driver will know that the carjackers would get out of the way of the car e.g. you can floor it to make them move away reflexively, then if necessary brake and swerve and not hit the person. Any injuries sustained in such a scenario would likely be far from fatal.

    They're carjackers not pedestrians looking at their phones.

    I haven't seen captchas from Google asking me to tell the difference between carjackers, pranksters or inattentive pedestrians yet. So I doubt their cars will handle such scenarios well ;).

    Most current AIs are still far far behind in many ways. Compare the mistakes they make vs the mistakes "dumb animals" make. The mistakes AIs make show how little they actually understand the world in practical ways compared to animals.

    Might still be enough for some purposes but don't be fooled into thinking they actually are that advanced.
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