Toyota invests $394m in Joby Aviation's flying taxis

Re:Toyota invests $394m in Joby Aviation's flying taxis by dmitrygr on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @11:04PM (#22061593)

They said the same about doctors, and yet heart surgery is done by real people.

All your NNs are entirely completely utterly pointless when faced with inputs they have never been trained on. They always suck at extrapolating, and almost always suck at interpolating as well. So when an unexpected emergency happens, what exactly are they going to do?

And outside of NNs, The only thing we have are autopilots. They sometimes fail, and that is why real pilots mainly just babysit them as their main job.

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Re:Toyota invests $394m in Joby Aviation's flying taxis by godelski on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @11:17PM (#22061651)

Just an FYI, planes already regularly fly by themselves. Auto landing has even been around since the late 60's.

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Re:Toyota invests $394m in Joby Aviation's flying taxis by VBprogrammer on Thursday January 16, 2020 @04:31AM (#22062944)

The idea that airplanes fly themselves is spectacularly overstated in the public consciousness. The reality is closer to multidimensional cruise control than the pilots are just there for decoration.

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Re:Toyota invests $394m in Joby Aviation's flying taxis by nradov on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @11:55PM (#22061773)

Yes but there are still trained human pilots monitoring the auto landing systems, ready to abort if anything goes wrong. It general autonomous systems are incapable of coping with unexpected failure modes.

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Re:Toyota invests $394m in Joby Aviation's flying taxis by godelski on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:39PM (#22071909)

Sorry, to be clear, planes are not level 5. But to also be clear, there are different levels of autonomy. I'm not trying to suggest they are level 5 though.

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