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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @11:09AM
The current masters have been promoting driverless cars for quite a while now and the attack on freedom is at full speed. This will inevitably result in public opinion changed in favour of driverless cars... until a strong power saves us.
And then people of all driving abilities will become statistics (news item: "this year 10% less deaths were recorded due to driverless technology" and failing to mention that the ones who did die had showed thinking abilities that could have threatened the current masters).
Remember that all drivers are not bad, just most have little abilities. Just as they have little abilities in other fields. They are people of inferior intelligence who will never do well (while driving or not driving). Do not mix smart people with the dumb masses. Do not mix good drivers with the bad ones. Do not propose driverless cars for everyone; that is what the media is doing.
The thing to ask is: What is their end-game? Apart from:
0. Increasing unemployment
1. Planned mass deaths
2. Total control
OT:
This seems like a forum full of bots repeating each other. Very few human souls live in these forums.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @11:43AM
3. Crash every car containing a registered voter registered to the other party.
4. Every political party does 3.
5. Surviving non-voters are apathetic to fascist coup.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @11:44AM
See a doctor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @11:48AM
Nope, just spots.