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Google’s Driverless Cars Run Into Problem: Cars With Drivers
New York Times ^
| 09/02/2015
| By MATT RICHTEL and CONOR DOUGHERTY
Posted on 09/02/2015 6:32:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: chaosagent
The obvious alternative is to put a human behind the wheel. Not a computer. The entire system...vehicle, traffic controls and road surfaces were made for humans. Not computers. Computers can't do the job.
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09/02/2015 12:52:43 PM PDT
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Bloody Sam Roberts
(Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
So you’re saying that if a human had been behind the wheel, that THEY should have run them down.
The computer stopped for the person in front of them.
The person would have stopped for a person in front of them.
What’s the difference?
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posted on
09/02/2015 1:06:12 PM PDT
by
chaosagent
(Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
To: chaosagent
So you’re saying that if a human had been behind the wheel, that THEY should have run them down.No. No I'm not. Additionally, no I didn't.
The difference is, a human would have slowed down for a person in the crosswalk and accelerated as soon as the person had passed the vehicle...keeping an eye on the vehicle approaching from the rear...keeping ready to accelerate and drive around the person in front. We do it all the time as human drivers.
The computer apparently isn't that well programmed. It clearly came to a complete stop for the jaywalker with no sense of, or regard for, the car coming from the rear.
Running over the jaywalker isn't an option in either scenario. Don't be intentionally obtuse.
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posted on
09/02/2015 1:14:11 PM PDT
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Bloody Sam Roberts
(Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
To: chaosagent
Of course not. BUT - if you act like you might, they will learn to keep their behinds on the sidewalk/in the cross-walk.
It works. Believe me.
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09/02/2015 2:00:48 PM PDT
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HeadOn
(Computers are nice, but when there is no power, mechanical devices will be king again.)
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