auto drive cars. Detroit become human tough

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Ayyy, didn't expect to see Veritasium on FA, lol. Was a good video tho x)

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I'm anti-automation.

Even if it could save over 10,000 lives, before the month of June in my home state there had already been over 400 car related fatalities. Even if you have been a good driver it doesn't stop other people from behaving stupidly on the road. I ran into a piece of debris on the highway because I miscalculated which direction I should have tried to go around it, a computer wouldn't have had better situational awareness of the where the semi was on my right and that I had more room to my left even though the car in front had a wake that pulled the debris to the left toward the shoulder of the lane. The automated vehicles have 1000 years of driving experience compared to the average human. They can easily communicate with each other reducing traffic. It is predicted that even if 1 in 20 vehicles were automated and communicating traffic conditions on the road ahead we would experience almost no traffic jams and if we did they would clear faster. Less wasted time for everyone and that is something which would directly impact anyone who commutes.

I don't care. I'm not going to trust a toaster with my life. Besides, letting cars communicate with each other is the first step towards having SkyNet.

Well if you have ever flown on an airplane chances are a good portion of the flight was done with auto pilot, which has allowed planes to land in heavy fog and other types of weather where humans would likely be in error. And back before auto pilot, if there heavy fog the plane likely would have been rerouted to another airport delaying trips.

Saying it's going to cause SkyNet is quite paranoid, computers can only do what we program them or teach them how to do. If you have ever used GPS on your phone you have already used the sort of AI that they want to implement because your phone reports on your position and how fast traffic is moving so that data is aggregated from a number of users to calculate optimal directions based on your settings, but also calculate your ETA from that data. Fact is AI helps with a lot of stuff already and you likely haven't noticed.

A profile of that caliber with this sort of comment is the reason I love this website so damn much.

This sort of thinking is the same reason covid vaccines went through hell and back just because some people couldn't understand something that would better humanity.

Phone error

Considering I just moved to a new city today and GPS got me lost, I would want the option to manually drive the car.

Were you using Google Maps? if you were I know sometimes it tells you to turn and you have two turns less then a block apart, but also if it loses signal that can happen to, Automated cards don't need to use GPS with Google Maps or the like, normal non-real time GPS's use downloaded map data that is updated periodically rather than trying to get current traffic data and have a constant link to cell towers for the mapping information versus satellites.

But consider that you would have likely be more lost without it.

As an auto technician, I get to see all the corners cut by the car companies at every level of building the things. It seems they've actually been making negative progress in recent years, something as simple as a door latch that used to be good forever now fails internally in a couple of years from manufacture. So until they can built a product that doesn't break just due to them cheaping out on components, I really don't think I'll ever trust my car to be making decisions for me on the road.
Semi-automated driver safety assist features like lane keeping and auto braking aren't even that good yet, with false triggers or just being unnecessarily intrusive. Just like the idea of the world going full EV, it's coming.. But the tech isn't even close to the levels it needs to be for it to be practical on any large scale.

SO even though the video proved that good had done it and build a fleet of cars which did not have all the negative of which you just mentioned....doesn't count for anything, good to know.

The cars you are talking about having faults are not nearly as sophisticated as the cars in the video by any stretch of the imagines because those cars are using both LIDAR and actual cameras that can see a perfect 360 not just the basic sensors of which you are discussing because companies can cut corners knowing that the driver is still ultimately responsible. We aren't talking about plugging in an AI like this into CURRENT vehicles, these vehicles would be designed and built from the ground up with the intention of them being automated.

If you have flown in a plane you have likely experienced the wonders of auto pilot and you aren't complaining about that.

Also as for EV, the largest hurdle is infrastructure that Governments do not want to help build because of the lobbying from Oil and Gas companies rolling into the big dollar bills.

Derek is a godsend.
A shame it'll likely take decades for this to become even remotely mainstream.

Derek is just so good as his research form his background in education and also like he pointed out with the automated elevator, it will likely take something like a taxi driver strike to encourage people to take an automated vehicle somewhere.