Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor crash

Re:Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor ... by simplemath on Monday February 29, 2016 @03:04PM (#11197976)

Heavy Machine Operators are probably good for 5 or 10 years longer than the rest... tops.

Isn't Rio Tinto already using AI to operate its haulers?

Even in niche specialized corners, the value prop of self operating machines is going to become increasingly overwhelming.

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Re:Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor ... by throwaway2048 on Monday February 29, 2016 @11:48PM (#11200844)

if replacing a machine costs $5 million, and the automatic model $1 million ontop of that, and you pay an operator $60k a year, the value proposition isn't very clear.

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Re:Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor ... by simplemath on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @12:23AM (#11200935)

What if the automatic model was only 200k more?

20k?

It's all coming.

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Re:Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor ... by throwaway2048 on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @01:09AM (#11201041)

For classes of machines where only a few thousand, or even a few tens/hundreds of thousands of units exist total, the costs of developing the sophisticated AI that requires are not going to be that low for a lot longer than 5-10 years from now. Especially considering the market is split between many player and none are going to share their secret sauce AI.

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