Posted on 05/16/2016 10:59:11 PM PDT by Trumpinator
Mark Harris 2 hrs ago
The Man Who Built Google’s First Self-Driving Car Is Now a Trucker
A group of ex-Google engineers have just launched Otto, an autonomous trucking startup
Otto’s first vehicle is twice as long and six times as heavy as Google’s cute prototype car, but has exactly the same number of drivers: zero.
Founded by four ex-Google engineers — including Anthony Levandowski, the man who built Google’s very first self-driving car — Otto is applying Google’s all-or-nothing approach to commercial big rigs: ditch human drivers, avoid thousands of road deaths, help the environment, and if all goes well, make a ton of money along the way.
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And when computers are able replicate simulated thinking that is close enough to a human ability to think, then what?
It’s the end process that counts. Whether it be a human’s ability to connect disparate dots or a computer’s ability to mine billion points of data to come to the same solution, business will only be concerned about which one costs less.
It’s fortunate that the route guidance that GPS-based navigation systems give you is 100% accurate.
It is, isn’t it?
Including politics?
I don’t it’s possible to make a non-thinking machine.
Sure it is. The Obamacare website proved that.
If it's automatable, it wasn't a good job.
I guess airline pilots are low skill, shit jobs. Because drone flown commercial passenger planes maybe around the corner. It's tech t hat actually exists now - just has not been released to teh civilian market yet.
“Soma”
That’s just some of what would not be to enjoy.
I was thinking more short term, and more in terms of current middle management skills.
Finding and collating data, writing reports, etc.
Also, a lot of the mid-level technology and engineering skills are going to be absorbed into software programs.
Just yesterday I read about an experimental physics software program that, completely on its own, can determine the ideal laser power and firing sequence to create super cooled Bose-Einstein condensates.
Apparently, in the past, this was done mostly by trial and error over a period of many months.
Ii drove through a bad thunderstorm yesterday. You couldn’t see anything and the traffic was erratic.
I wouldnt want to be near one of these things in a bad rain, ice, or snow storm. Also, what if there are problems with the satillite connection?
The drone cars have on-board sensors. In the near future I can see the roadways embedded with sensors as well.
I do a lot of driving for my work. Occasionally around a 1000 miles. I would love for these driverless cars to work. I could rest and do paperwork on the way.
It will take a while before I gain confidence in the technology but it is one technology that I would like to see a reality.
Me to to be honest. It will be a revolution in how we commute. I will spend extra time in traffic if I can chill.
Me to to be honest. It will be a revolution in how we commute. I will spend extra time in traffic if I can chill.
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It would be one of the best things ever for my job.
We already have cars that auto brake, etc.
I’ll probably drive 600 miles this week. It cannot happen soon enough.
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