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from the how-long-could-they-last-in-Boston? dept.
A little while back, I saw the following tweet:
I can print mostly. My wifi works often. The Xbox usually recognises me. Siri sometimes works. But my self driving car will be *perfect*.
The tweet has since been deleted, so I won't name the author, but it's a thought-provoking idea. At first, I agreed with it. I'm a programmer and know full well just how shoddy is 99.9% of the code we all write. The idea that I would put my life in the hands of a coder like myself is a bit worrying.
[...] The reality is that self-driving cars don't need to be perfect. They just need to be better than the alternative: human-driven cars. And that is a much lower bar, as human beings are remarkably bad at driving.
[...] Self-driving cars don't get tired. They don't get drunk. They don't get distracted by friends or a crying baby. They don't look away from the road to send a text message. They don't speed, tailgate, brake too late, forget to show a blinker, drive too fast in bad weather, run red lights, race other cars at red lights, or miss exits. Self-driving cars aren't going to be perfect, but they will be a hell of a lot better than you and me.
Related: The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Gravis on Monday January 04 2016, @07:51AM
this isn't a news story, this is a blog post. no news has been conveyed here, only what one idiot on the internet thinks.
a) who cares what person XYZ thinks?
b) why was this accepted?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @09:12AM
At least it was refreshing from seeing what's the latest finding in web by Hugh Pickens. Or yet another old, well-known astronomy tidbit packaged as news by SWAB.
When would Soylent allow blocking articles by submitter?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @11:20AM
Agree with this. When the WWW is filled with promotions of something (think 90's Java articles), never listen to any of it. Let them read their own articles and blog posts. Do not promote them because they do not appear to work in your interest but someone else's. When someone wants to discuss it, change subject.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @04:48PM
The submission queue was very low the past 3-4 days so quality is bound to drop.
I didn't get around to submitting anything but I felt guilty the whole time. This site is community driven so we need to put more in if we want more out of it.