Re:G.M. Unveils Its Driverless Cars, Aiming to Lead the Pack
by fixermark on Thursday November 30, 2017 @11:50AM
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I believe a vehicle akin to the one you're describing ("act exactly the same" is a bit unnecessarily specific, but "drive safely on a road under its own direction from a point A to a point B chosen by a human") is definitely what Waymo is prototyping, and such vehichles have already driven on public roads (with human occupants, but without human occupants operating the control surfaces).
Re:G.M. Unveils Its Driverless Cars, Aiming to Lead the Pack
by jakeogh on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @04:17AM
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There will never be conventional digital pre-programmed cars that "act exactly the same" or even remotely as "same" as a human driver. What is going to happen, is for a bit, the control writers will blame humans for their failure, followed shortly by the population's understanind and eventual ban in many places on this unworkable idea.
Tightly restricted societies that put "safety" over "freedom" will just end up banning non-elite direct human control of KE>nJ. The repercussions of that mistake have ugly ends.
Re:G.M. Unveils Its Driverless Cars, Aiming to Lead the Pack
by Dylan16807 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @01:17AM
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Is my argument invalid if that software doesn't exist in 2017?
And you could remote control a car today if you wanted to. Nobody inside in that case.
"A taxi with a driver inside can act exactly the same as a taxi without a driver inside."
Again, where is this software that enables the pre-programmed taxi to "act exactly the same"?
I assume you are making an actual argument, not "it can drive in a line and stop at a stop sign".