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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by gary_0 on Saturday June 03, 2023 @10:44PM (#36182579)
I used to develop for CNC systems, and those responded to sensor trips within microseconds. The computers involved were realtime systems. If everything wasn't that fast, the machines would have demolished themselves. A human pulling a lever would have been 500,000x too slow.
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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by dghlsakjg on Saturday June 03, 2023 @11:01PM (#36182670)
Robots beat humans at things like determining if a circuit has been completed (sensor trips), and following a predefined set of directions.

Humans are far better at complex things like reacting appropriately to an unanticipated input (someone yelling stop, or honking a horn)

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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by Invictus0 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:57AM (#36185646)
You're comparing "read a binary flip" to "process millions of pixels into a high level understanding of the world and make a complicated decision"
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