Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality
by thereisnospork on Thursday September 13, 2018 @08:09PM
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Because of immaturity, not cognitive or physical capability. Kids start racing go karts as young as five - and that's a far more difficult, requiring fast reflexes, precise car control, and situational awareness. It's a far more challenging task than an average commute.
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Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality
by chemicalnovae on Thursday September 13, 2018 @11:39PM
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Not really, racing carts is primarily about the ability to control the thing under very well defined conditions (read: much better than your average 3 lane highway with hundreds of other road users) with other road users with the exact same end goal.
Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality
by wpietri on Friday September 14, 2018 @12:20AM
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Exactly. "Immaturity" includes a big lack of detailed domain knowledge and domain-specific judgment, which is one of the things I think is going to be very hard to teach to computers.
Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality
by joesb on Friday September 14, 2018 @02:47AM
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I think domain specific judgement is what computers excel than human.
What human has advantage of is utilizing knowledge in unrelated domain to another domain.
Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality
by wpietri on Saturday September 15, 2018 @01:34AM
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Depends on what you mean by "domain", I suppose. But driving is a very broad domain. One has to understand human custom, human psychology, and human ethics, for example. As well as the behavior of wildlife, some applied meteorology, and a fair bit of understanding of both law and police practice. To a computer, these might be unrelated domains, but they aren't if you put a computer behind the wheel.