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Originally posted by SoulReaver View Postbah just give it a couple o centuries & those cars will be smarter than us
btw another one a few weeks back:
https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/28/...car-collision/
anyway this should be interesting cause now the question will be, who's held responsible?
Once companies realize that they will be liable for the mayhem these things cause, they will drop them like hot potatoes.
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Originally posted by mad_gater View PostNormal human reflexes (ones that haven't been dulled by drink or other form of drug) are actually insanely fast. Normal human reflexes can have us responding to an unexpected obstacle in the blink of an eye. Computers can crunch numbers and process data a lot faster than we can. However computers don't have the capacity to carry out reflexive responses. The human capacity to carry out a reflexive response to an unexpected situation in the blink of an eye is not something that I believe can be effectively reduced to binary 1's and zero's in a computer's memory chip.
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Originally posted by Annoyed View PostAnd that there is going to be the brick wall for these infernal contraptions. (As I've pointed out before)
Once companies realize that they will be liable for the mayhem these things cause, they will drop them like hot potatoes.
Oh, and lookie here. One can only hope.
Self-driving Uber crash could open the company to criminal charges
Sunday night's deadly crash in Arizona involving a self-driving Uber SUV could leave the ridesharing company vulnerable to criminal charges under new rules enacted earlier this month by the state's governor.
Republican Gov. Doug Ducey used light regulations to entice Uber to the state after the company experienced a shaky rollout of test cars in neighboring California, and hundreds of vehicles with automated driving systems have been on the state's roads.
But on March 1, Ducey signed an executive order creating a detailed rules and licensing system for the vehicles. Under the new rules, a spokesman for the governor told the Phoenix New Times, a company that operates a self-driving vehicle would be held responsible if it negligently killed someone during testing. According to the paper, the company could even be held criminally liable in the same manner a person would.
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Originally posted by Annoyed View PostWith any luck, we'll see a cadre of Uber executives sentenced to prison
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Originally posted by jelgate View PostThey said the same thing about the steam engine. Those horse driven trains are much safer than steam engines. Good thing those devil engines never happened
steam engines aren't governed solely by COMPUTERS like these stupid cars are
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Originally posted by mad_gater View Postcomparing apples to oranges I see
steam engines aren't governed solely by COMPUTERS like these stupid cars aresigpicALL THANKS TO THE WONDERFUL CREATOR OF THIS SIG GO TO R.I.G.A lie is just a truth that hasn't gone through conversion therapy yetThe truth isn't the truth
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Originally posted by jelgate View PostMG missed the point. It's one of the oldest stories where people fear technology and think the old way is better. I purposely used an extreme example
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Originally posted by jelgate View PostMG missed the point. It's one of the oldest stories where people fear technology and think the old way is better. I purposely used an extreme examplesigpicALL THANKS TO THE WONDERFUL CREATOR OF THIS SIG GO TO R.I.G.A lie is just a truth that hasn't gone through conversion therapy yetThe truth isn't the truth
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You think computers would be so superior at driving because they don't drink alcohol or take drugs. But computers can have a whole host of other bad things happen to them. They can be hacked, they can malfunction, their circuits could fry, a strong EMP pulse could shut them down, all right in the middle of being driven somewhere. Again, computers will never be able to express human reflexes and intuition on-the-fly. Buck Rogers had the same problem when flying with a fighter squadron to take out some marauders. Their automated targeting computers were crap and so Buck switched to manual and managed to take out all the marauders. Losing some data in a computer crash is one thing, but computers should never be used in a situation where an OS crash could mean that people get seriously hurt or killed. What you call being "afraid" of technology I call exercising a healthy dose of common sense, something that I can see is sorely lacking in modern times.
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