This test of Tesla’s self-driving tech is tough viewing: what Mark Rober did the fun way with his Wile E Coyote test of a fake wall in the middle of the road, the team over at The Dawn Project are doing the hard way by testing self-driving Teslas’ ability to stop for pedestrians at flashing […]
I can't imagine a company I would trust less to design autonomous taxis.
not so fast.. i heard they're just gonna move the bodies around to create a sort of braille for the blind. it'll also sound like the star spangled banner when you drive over it.
It's the same as with AI in general: people can't wait to let it loose on the populace, however flawed it is.
Of course immediate physical danger is more important, but AI's dangers are very real, too.
And some people, deeming themselves realistic, say it's almost there but I say no. The idea that machines can become actually intelligent firmly belongs in fiction. And our roads have been designed for intelligent actors for centuries, merely "improving pattern recognition" is not going to cut it.
Fuck all technobros who push this stuff like its a major revelation for humanity.
I 💯% agree w/you about Tesla’s. I don’t trust a self-driven car. I live 1/2 mile from Tesla’s distribution center. I think that weird Tesla “Jetson” car is kinda ugly. Did you know that Elon Musk names his cars w/letters that spell out S3XY? I know, leave it to him to think up something like that. He couldn’t use the letter E bc Ford Motors blocked him so he used the number 3.