Posted on 12/09/2017 4:39:03 AM PST by jjotto
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2017/12/qotd-waymo-dude-drivers-license/#more-1603572
... But what I can tell you is that if you get into your 20s without being to handle a plain-Jane passenger car in ordinary traffic, and you are not a native New Yorker, I’m going to make a few assumptions about what kind of man you are.
In my opinion, a man who is old enough to get his PhD should be able to drive a car, ride a motorcycle, understand most basic types of machinery, operate a firearm, calculate a tip, handle a confrontation with another man whether through diplomacy or force as required, and take a woman on a date (if that’s his bag, baby) without finishing the night either alone or under investigation for harassment.
I’m not saying that you have to engage in the sort of nature-Zoolander cosplay that made former Jalopnik writer Wes Siler a laughingstock. It’s THE CURRENT YEAR and I doubt that any of us will be forced to subsistence hunt in the near future.
But young men should be encouraged to learn and develop the skills they will need to be something other than helpless outside of Park Slope or Mountain View...
Vahid = snowflake in Millennialese.
Adjunct?
Humans should not live in LA. Many of the residents of LA are not human.
Methinks Vahid is an erstwhile humorist.
Be keenly aware that today’s engineers are increasingly Affirmative Action hires that will duplicate the success of AA hires in government and universities.
In my opinion, a man who is old enough to get his PhD should be able to drive a car, ride a motorcycle, understand most basic types of machinery, operate a firearm, calculate a tip, handle a confrontation with another man whether through diplomacy or force as required, and take a woman on a date (if that’s his bag, baby) without finishing the night either alone or under investigation for harassment.
Reminded of an old Robert Heinlein quote. One of my favorites.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.”
Am I supposed to already know who Kazemi is, and what he tweeted, before I read this article? I’ve read the article, and I have no idea what it’s about.
self-driving cars is part of AI-Artificial Intelligence.
All AI is inflicted with the same problem...bias.
Bias is also the plague of predictive modeling and preditive analytics. Bias is the plague of new tech.
Smart people who are biased think they are too smart to be biased and they truly do not know and are not aware of their bias. Of course, they are also defensive if they begin to get a glimpse of their bias. Revealing the bias, and their ignorance of the bias, might reveal that they aren’t as smart as everybody thinks they are.
I recently had occasion to drive a car with lane departure warning. It shakes the wheel to warn you. It was very disconcerting because it repeatedly 'warned' for no reason at all.
I never want a car deciding things for me, especially one designed by people who can't do what I can do.
artificial=something not the original, fake.
Not sure what business you are in but in my line of work if you are an engineer and can’t cut it (AA or not), you sink to the bottom real quick. Engineering is not a “let’s wait and see how it turns out” profession. The results are right there in front of everyone. In my line of work it was all about doing it better (quality), faster (market share) and cheaper (profit). These three parameters were often at each other’s throat. That is where great engineering and management found its mettle.
There’s nothing like the topic of self driving cars to get some people enraged.
Autonomous cars will be mandated for several reasons:
90% of all automotive fatalities are driver error.
Autonomous vehicles are the left’s “mass transit” dream come true without the heavy infrastructure needed for rail.
People resisted ATMs and preferred bank tellers. How did that go for the “resistance” to automation?
FReepers need to understand that autonomous cars will be forced on the people. Private ownership of a vehicle will be like private ownership of a horse.....something reserved for a select few and only in private settings.
Sounds like a Muslim terrorist to me:
“Kazemi, Kazimi or Kazmi is a surname ...The surname can be linked back to the family of Islamic Prophet Muhammad’s great-grandson Imam Musa al-Kadhim”
‘The Drive’ story is instructive. Waymo/Google is going all-in on actual autonomy instead of driver aids. Driving autonomy is likely to be like fusion energy; useful in just a few more years, decade after decade.
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