Once again the luddites show up and are the ONLY people talking about self-driving cars being centrally controlled. Nobody developing them is doing ANY form of central control, that whole idea exists ONLY in the brains of people against the technology.
exists ONLY in the brains of people against the technology.
“Nobody developing them is doing ANY form of central control, that whole idea exists ONLY in the brains of people against the technology.”
Those aren’t the droids you are looking for.
Uh,huh. Nothing to worry about the people at Google will take care of everything and won’t ever collaborate with the DNC or any government agency. They won’t conspire to do humanity’s bidding for reducing globull warming, or restrict access of certain undesirables like the IRS did, right?
Just hop in your self-driving car with elaborate software and sensors all along traveled routes. As long as you have nothing to hide you have no reason not to hand over all your movement and control to aggregating software, the developers, and their government benefactors, right.
Good luck with that.
Ahem...opposition to self driving cars makes one a luddite?
You know, those machines the Luddites smashed were doing their jobs BETTER than they could do manually. However, I have yet to be convinced that self driving cars perform their task better than, or even as well as a human driver. And frankly, I don’t see much promise of it ever achieving even parity with a human driver in the far off future.
So, perhaps the term Luddite should be replaced with Realist.
This Luddite has worked with LIDAR - one of the technologies being used on self driving cars. I know how it works, I know its capabilities, I know how it is able to recognize a cloud of 3 dimensional points as an object from its library...neat stuff. I also know that it is a sensitive instrument that is currently being shipped halfway across the globe for calibration. I also know that it takes a large amount of computing power...’on board’, because cell coverage isn’t everywhere (I suspect Google’s test fleet is always in a coverage area to mask this need), and I know that the computing power is heavy (we’re talking about a car here and weight matters), expensive, needs its own air conditioner (more weight), and delicate. I also know that in the real world, stripes fade, snow piles up, rain falls, and sometimes my car is caked with mud for weeks.
I have no idea what the fascination is with the self driving car - but don’t get your hopes up.
> Nobody developing them is doing ANY form of central control,
Yep, just for liability reasons alone. Also, who would trust that any interface wouldn’t be hacked?