Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now

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Cites jayknight · 2021-07 · on “It’s not a self-driving car unless you can sleep in it”

>plane autopilots mostly just help flying straight, the pilot still flies the plane Mostly, as in that's what they are doing most of the time, then yes. But autopilots can fly a predefined routes. Most commercial aircraft can fly themselves except for take off and the last few hundred feet of landing (thanks to instrument landing systems). I would be quite happy with a car that could take over once I get to a highway. Getting to the highway is like taking off and getting from the highway to my destination is like landing. >"Full self driving" is a lie, plain and simple. Maybe for Tesla, but here's Veritasium[1] taking a ride in a car with no driver at all. It's still limited to where it can

Cites greggman3 · 2021-08 · on “Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020)”

self-driving cars are available to consumers now. Search for FSD on youtube and see all the consumers using their self driving cars. Or, watch the latest Veritasium [this video]

Cites cgrealy · 2021-08 · on “Where are the robotic bricklayers?”

> We haven't automated driving Yeah, we pretty much have... it just hasn't been widely adopted yet. [this video] And honestly, from a business perspective, most people really don't care about the skills ordinary people have. Look at the wine industry for example. Top shelf wine is hand-picked, for exactly the reasons you outline, and some people are willing to pay top dollar for that end product. But the vast majority of grapes are harvested by very simple machines, because scale and profit, and most people just want a $10 bottle of decent-ish wine. We absolutely can automate cooking a fucking hamburger, and as soon as it's cheaper than the cheapest labour, McDonald's, Burger King, etc, WILL auto

Cites aiisjustanif · 2021-08 · on “Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco”

> Self-driving cars don't just have to be better than human drivers. They have to be as close to perfect as is possible, because that's what people will expect. Though I disagree because people expect a lot of things and alternative outcomes happen when there are incentives (Current cars, airplanes, and elevators come to mind). Waymo seems to be aware of this from this recent video. [1] 1. [this video]

Cites jeffbee · 2022-09 · on “Did GoogleAI just snooker one of Silicon Valley’s sharpest minds?”

If you are referring to Veritasium's Waymo video, it says it is sponsored content in the description above the fold and it has the standard paid promotion notice right on top of the video as soon as you open it. As far as I can tell the "controversy" over the video is merely that one dedicated critic - so dedicated he made an hour-long response to a 20-minute video - is committed to the idea that machines won't ever be able to drive, and is irrationally angry over the fact that machines can and do drive, and do it well. [this video]

Critical mbesto · 2021-08 · on “Where are the robotic bricklayers?”

> Yeah, we pretty much have... "Pretty much". heh, there are 6 distinct levels of car automation for a reason. > it just hasn't been widely adopted yet. [this video] Now try this in Wisconsin in January with 8 inches of snow on the ground. I consider Wisconsin wide adoption, do you?

Critical CorrectHorseBat · 2021-08 · on “How we’ve built the World’s Most Experienced Urban Driver”

Looking at a fragment another recent video I don't feel like it's really that great yet: [this video] Yes it's amazing what they can do, but if after all this time they can't even react correctly in such a simple situation I really wonder if full self driving is feasible.

Critical emsign · 2021-10 · on “SmarterEveryDay's 4privacy can, and cannot, meet its goals”

> Where I get uneasy is how quickly SmarterEveryDay seems to have > switched from a YouTube channel about explaining things into a > YouTube channel about stoking "Big Tech" fears as a way to sell > apps. The latest video is title "Is Your Privacy An Illusion? > (Taking on Big Tech) - Smarter Every Day 263". This has been a trend with YouTube science communicators and educators for a while now. They're getting hired by companies to basically produce an ad in the style of their regular videos. Physics Girl did a video in cooperation with Toyota praising Toyota's hydrogen powered test car, telling her audience that hydrogen as a passenger car fuel has a future while ignoring the fact that ever