Uber self driving cars and you.
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GJS
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My n**s are generally in my throat with any other PERSON driving. I couldn't even consider getting into a self driving vehicle.
GJS
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They already do that in Cairo and they don't even have driverless cars!
rapidtrans
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I'm not interested in a $$$ settlement as much as a show trial that may make people think twice about some of this tech in cars. The companies won't go broke but the idiot driver filing bankruptcy trying to pay lawyer fees might get someones attention.
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I'm certainly not a fan of driverless cars.
70bigblockdodge
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We have Uber Volvo's self driving here in Pittsburgh area god help you if you get stuck behind one. It will make following a city bus or garbage truck seem pleasurable.
I 100% agree with the previous statement about self driving semi trucks, not only because my livelihood depends on one, having a 40+ ton truck making a non emotional decision between you and that bright yellow school bus that may not even have a single child on it. If one does hit you who are you suing, a giant corporation, good luck with that, they will outlived you and your heirs, or they will fold up, and grow anew someplace else.
Intermodal transportation make 100 times more sense than trying to get a truck to drive across the country by itself on the roads and all the variables. Who is checking the load enroute, is it going to fall off and squish you like a grape, is it going to leak out and contaminate the road, water, you. Who is pre-tripping the truck and trailer spotting cracked wheels or separating tires before they come apart in the lane next to you. Are they just going to stop on the shoulder of a crowded road and send a email for road service because the turnsignal is out (it is a red tag offense with mandatory out of service), or does it make a decision to break federal law and continue without it or at a minimum, make a desicion that a large vehicle on the side of the road in that spot is dangerous to others. If it does stop, who puts out the safety triangles or flares at night. With one hundred containers on a train not on the road it is solving a congestion problem also. Talk about getting so caught up in a idea that you can't see the absurdity of the end result.
Self driving cars will happen. Most people can't stand driving now but don't want to take public transportation because the schedule or crowd.
I 100% agree with the previous statement about self driving semi trucks, not only because my livelihood depends on one, having a 40+ ton truck making a non emotional decision between you and that bright yellow school bus that may not even have a single child on it. If one does hit you who are you suing, a giant corporation, good luck with that, they will outlived you and your heirs, or they will fold up, and grow anew someplace else.
Intermodal transportation make 100 times more sense than trying to get a truck to drive across the country by itself on the roads and all the variables. Who is checking the load enroute, is it going to fall off and squish you like a grape, is it going to leak out and contaminate the road, water, you. Who is pre-tripping the truck and trailer spotting cracked wheels or separating tires before they come apart in the lane next to you. Are they just going to stop on the shoulder of a crowded road and send a email for road service because the turnsignal is out (it is a red tag offense with mandatory out of service), or does it make a decision to break federal law and continue without it or at a minimum, make a desicion that a large vehicle on the side of the road in that spot is dangerous to others. If it does stop, who puts out the safety triangles or flares at night. With one hundred containers on a train not on the road it is solving a congestion problem also. Talk about getting so caught up in a idea that you can't see the absurdity of the end result.
Self driving cars will happen. Most people can't stand driving now but don't want to take public transportation because the schedule or crowd.
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Carmine
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For a number of years large aircraft have been fully capable of using auto pilot to takeoff, cruise and land virtually regardless of the weather. So why does everyone have a pilot and copilot, just along for the ride? Or could it be that no airport is willing to risk a crash shutdown, or maybe because nobody would fly with them.
I suggest major AI advances must happen, to the point where you can converse with the AI without realizing you are talking to a bucket of bolts.
I suggest major AI advances must happen, to the point where you can converse with the AI without realizing you are talking to a bucket of bolts.
67Monaco
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And now they're racist...
Study finds a potential risk with self-driving cars: failure to detect dark-skinned pedestrians
A new study finds a potential risk with self-driving cars: failure to detect dark-skinned pedestrians
The findings speak to a bigger problem in the development of automated systems: algorithmic bias.
Study finds a potential risk with self-driving cars: failure to detect dark-skinned pedestrians
A new study finds a potential risk with self-driving cars: failure to detect dark-skinned pedestrians
The findings speak to a bigger problem in the development of automated systems: algorithmic bias.
I wonder if AI has developed it own algorithm for a "Natural Selection" process? If there is a dark skinned bias I wonder if that would also extend to dark colored tree trunks and telephone poles. This tech has a long way to go before it perfected, in the mean time the public is the test guinea pig.
Dave
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Whoops.
Tesla Model 3 Drives Straight Into Overturned Truck In What Seems To Be Autopilot Failure
"Tesla Model 3 Drives Straight Into Overturned Truck In What Seems To Be Autopilot Failure
Earlier today, on Taiwan’s National Highway 1 near the Zhongshan High Chiayi Water Section, a Tesla Model 3 crashed right smack into the roof of an overturned truck trailer. It appears that the wreck was caused by the Tesla’s Autopilot system not detecting the large rectangular object right in front of it, in broad daylight and clear weather. We have seen Autopilot failures like thisbefore, especially ones involving large, immobile objects.
There’s video of the wreck, and you can see the Tesla drives right into the truck, with only what looks like a solitary attempt at braking just before impact:"
Oddly enough, this is exactly what happens in the first episode of Amazon's Upload series. eerie.
Tesla Model 3 Drives Straight Into Overturned Truck In What Seems To Be Autopilot Failure
"Tesla Model 3 Drives Straight Into Overturned Truck In What Seems To Be Autopilot Failure
Earlier today, on Taiwan’s National Highway 1 near the Zhongshan High Chiayi Water Section, a Tesla Model 3 crashed right smack into the roof of an overturned truck trailer. It appears that the wreck was caused by the Tesla’s Autopilot system not detecting the large rectangular object right in front of it, in broad daylight and clear weather. We have seen Autopilot failures like thisbefore, especially ones involving large, immobile objects.
There’s video of the wreck, and you can see the Tesla drives right into the truck, with only what looks like a solitary attempt at braking just before impact:"
Oddly enough, this is exactly what happens in the first episode of Amazon's Upload series. eerie.
