Re:Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco
by Dylan16807 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @11:57PM
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I think you might have missed the implication that the humans are doing a terrible job, so a computer doesn't have to be very good to beat them in this situation.
Re:Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco
by tablespoon on Thursday March 31, 2022 @09:19AM
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> I think you might have missed the implication that the humans are doing a terrible job, so a computer doesn't have to be very good to beat them in this situation.
That doesn't really matter, because I was responding to the the sci-fi sentiment that "of course the computer must be better because computer." It doesn't matter if the humans are doing a poor job if the computer is still worse.
Re:Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco
by Dylan16807 on Thursday March 31, 2022 @02:16PM
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I don't think that was the sentiment at all.
Especially because the claim is only about snowy situations. Even in a reply about snow, someone that thinks computers are automatically better would normally just say that directly.
What's the basis for your imagining? Whenever I read some strong "computer > human" statement like that, I can't help but think it's substantially based on science fiction (which can make technology work fantastically well because it's not real, e.g. like Six Million Dollar Man vs actual prosthetic limbs).
Also, have you heard about the time I was driving on the highway in winter weather, and my adaptive cruise control would stop working every few dozen miles because I had to get out and scrape ice off the sensor?