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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by timthelion on Sunday June 04, 2023 @08:03AM (#36184946)
Humans have two eyes that move in sync and can measure distance using the auto-focus feature. They can both point at an object and autofocus to figure out how far that object is. I don't see teslas using moving binocular cameras with 10th of a second autorefocusing in order to judge distances. I don't see how it is the same thing. Of course we can play GTA with just vision, but I'd argue the average person crashes in GTA more than they do in a real car.
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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by cainxinth on Sunday June 04, 2023 @08:34AM (#36185128)
> Of course we can play GTA with just vision, but I'd argue the average person crashes in GTA more than they do in a real car.

I’m fairly certain that people would drive more safely in GTA if their life was literally at stake.

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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by vibrio on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:02AM (#36185285)
I once barely survived a ride with a taxi driver in Tijuana who claimed to have learned to drive playing GTA. Based on his real-world driving it seemed plausible although We did not have to visit a spray’n’pay at any point. I never got to seem him play GTA so I can’t verify or refute your hypothesis.
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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by treis on Sunday June 04, 2023 @08:43AM (#36185186)
That's due to the small viewing window, controller, and physics of GTA. In proper simulators with steering wheels and big screens they do fine.
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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by eternauta3k on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:18AM (#36185371)
Aren't the eyes basically always focused at infinity while driving?
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