Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’

Re:Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Fut... by sandworm101 on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @12:15PM (#20461075)

Not just bigger. Bigger can be fixed with more cpu time. It is a fundimentally different problem. Nobody has a good theoretical answer even with infinite cpu time.

I say this while on a car ferry. Getting on this boat required me to navigate several strange road markings and obey a half-dozen hand gestures from staff, including several that were contrary to the painted lines. No AI is even contemplating car ferries.

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Re:Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Fut... by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @01:39PM (#20462044)

It's not just car ferries. Accident scenes and construction zones sometimes require you to obey hand signals and ignore road markings.

There aren't many car ferries around where I live. But there's plenty of construction...

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Re:Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Fut... by sandworm101 on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @10:32PM (#20466182)

Ever area had its little thing. They may be edge cases individually but edge cases, as a group, must be planned for.

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Re:Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Fut... by ghaff on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @12:51PM (#20461475)

Right. And, sure, that's an edge case for most people. But even if such edge cases only crop up every now and then, you're now at the difference between a reliable automated door-to-door system and one that can drive you around most of the time but every now and then forces a hopefully sober/licensed/competent driver to get behind the wheel to take some actions.

That's a huge difference. Maybe you can address it with some sort of remote OnStar-like system but now you're forcing a remote operator to jump into an unknown context and take actions that were too hard for the AI.

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