Re:Self driving cars and beyond
by YeGoblynQueenne on Sunday February 11, 2018 @04:59PM
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>> It’s great to explore this topic. You can have a lot of fun in picking a random industry and imagining the effect that self driving will have.
Yes, it will be interesting to see the public's reaction in a few years, when the promised revolution fails to materialise.
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[1] I say this with some insight borrowed from people in the automotive industry. A commenter in another thread has recommended the following Medium post:
We’re still very much in the early days of making self-driving cars a reality. Those who think fully self-driving vehicles will be ubiquitous on city streets months from now or even in a few years are not well connected to the state of the art or committed to the safe deployment of the technology. For those of us who have been working on the technology for a long time, we’re going to tell you the issue is still really hard, as the systems are as complex as ever.
Yes, it will be interesting to see the public's reaction in a few years, when the promised revolution fails to materialise.
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[1] I say this with some insight borrowed from people in the automotive industry. A commenter in another thread has recommended the following Medium post:
We’re still very much in the early days of making self-driving cars a reality. Those who think fully self-driving vehicles will be ubiquitous on city streets months from now or even in a few years are not well connected to the state of the art or committed to the safe deployment of the technology. For those of us who have been working on the technology for a long time, we’re going to tell you the issue is still really hard, as the systems are as complex as ever.
https://medium.com/self-driven/a-decade-after-darpa-our-view...