Driverless cars are stuck in a jam

Re:Driverless cars are stuck in a jam by bluGill on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:42AM (#21387022)

Computers don't get board and start daydreaming (when I win the lottery where will the pool go in my mansion). Computers don't get distracted reading (ie facebook) while driving. Computers can have redundancy so the equivalent of a heart attack won't be endanger everybody (this assumes of course the redundancy works - computers have a lot of failure modes of their own)

There is plenty of opportunity for computers to be better than humans. It is a hard problem though.

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Re:Driverless cars are stuck in a jam by rootusrootus on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @12:55PM (#21389316)

OTOH, humans can tell that a merging lane is a merging lane. Hard problem indeed :).

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Re:Driverless cars are stuck in a jam by bluGill on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @01:30PM (#21389764)

Today that is a factor. When (if...) computers figure that out though they never forget to look to see if the lane is merging.

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Re:Driverless cars are stuck in a jam by rootusrootus on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:39PM (#21390608)

At the risk of showing just how ignorant I am of current state-of-the-art AI, it feels like the biggest block with self-driving cars is how short their memory is and how little high-level logic is implemented. The computer doesn't feel like it's driving the car as an activity so much as simply responding to inputs as they come into sensor range, sometimes correlated, frequently not.

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