They're coming. In my lifetime, probably.
Technology doesn't always work out..... Here's some fails
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Well I can't drive being legally blind but It is something I would love to happen before I croak
Ugh. I know what that's like. Yes, I correct to about 20/25, but without my glasses, I can't even read that big E on the eye chart. It would suck to have to deal with that all the time.
Generally if it's walking to the bus stop and such I can manage and do reasonably well with that as the bus stop is close and the bus usually fairly reliable, there's only one bus number so reading that isn't the issue not that I can until it's right on top of me.
But yeah the promise of self driving car or automated taxi thingy that would be awesome.
^ Yes, I think too they will eventually come.
With a lot of resistance from people who prefer to keep driving themselves, though.
With a lot of resistance from people who prefer to keep driving themselves, though.
As long as you allow the people who "Want to drive", to drive w/o AI assistance, I don't see the problem.
If you try to force AI Automated Driving on everybody by "Force / Legislation / Divine Power / Peer Pressure", then that's where we get into issues.
There are A LOT of people who want to force things on others instead of letting people decide for themselves if it's worth the risk to their own lives.
So many people blindly trusted Elon Musk on Tesla's AutoPilot safety and I never trusted his BS claims.
I'd rather trust my safety in my own hands.
That's because he was pushing the tech out way before it was ready.. With lots of BS claims too. It just wasn't ready and probably won't be ready for a while.
Whatever happened to Google's self driving cars that used real time and GPS data to travel?
I know, he was caught lying and people have come out and reported how he staged / faked those Auto-Pilot videos used to wow people over into buying Teslas.
Google's Waymo is still around, but they're still in the burning money phase and need Camera's + LIDAR + GPS to even work.
There's plenty of Backlash against Waymo still.
Waymo - Wikipedia
This is just the basics from Wikipedia.
There's definitely more out there.
Waymo has been trying to hide it's safety record data and refused to let the CA Government and the public see it in terms of transparency.
It's a on going battle for the public to see the true data since they have every intention to hide it.
Waymo - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
This is just the basics from Wikipedia.
There's definitely more out there.
Waymo has been trying to hide it's safety record data and refused to let the CA Government and the public see it in terms of transparency.
It's a on going battle for the public to see the true data since they have every intention to hide it.
That's a shitshow
Exactly why I don't trust AI Driving.
Nobody is going to be able to make "KITT" from Knight Rider.
Definitely no time soon.
Oddly nobody today except oldies know what KITT is... /s
Although the 1960s Batmobile could also do that stuff
Did the 1960's BatMobile have KITT as a AI to drive the vehicle and help out BatMan?
No but there was one episode where Batman called the car and it self drove to where he was, even obeyed traffic lights and stopped for pedestrians
I hate driving and I'm rubbish at it, it amazes me I get anywhere without killing anybody. A robot could do it better than me. I'm especially terrified by the other drivers on the road who appear to not realise they're also terrible at it. Conclusion: Driving is deadly dangerous no matter who or what is doing it.
I agree current AI is not mature enough yet to trust the technology for safe driving.
However, in 30 years' time (when AI is a lot further than it is today) this might be quite different and I could see governments outlawing people driving themselves by that time, on the basis of incontrovertible statistical evidence that AI driving _is_ safer (with the AI technology of that future era). But even in that scenario there probably will be people resisting that.
However, in 30 years' time (when AI is a lot further than it is today) this might be quite different and I could see governments outlawing people driving themselves by that time, on the basis of incontrovertible statistical evidence that AI driving _is_ safer (with the AI technology of that future era). But even in that scenario there probably will be people resisting that.
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