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There's really neat technology that takes our breath away, like the launch of the Falcon Heavy and the drone swarm light display at the winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, in South Korea. Then there's this. I think I'll steer clear of this one...
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Posted 7 y ago
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Why? The roads will be VASTLY safer when all vehicles are self-driven. I'll trust a computer over a human all week long and all day on Sunday.
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SPC Joshua Brumley
I wouldn't. The reasons are that, for all the advancement in computer sciences that have happened in the last 7 decades or so, computers are still stupid. They can only do what they are told and if they get a bad instruction set, they will carry it out to the best of their ability, often to the detriment of everything around them. It's the "Garbage in, Garbage out" principle. There still needs to be a human operator to take control when needed.
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SN Greg Wright
SPC Joshua Brumley - Your point is valid, and the programming needs to be (and will be) stone-cold-solid. But once it is, cars will react orders of magnitude faster than you can, very likely before you even realize there's a problem developing. Computers operate at light speed minus resistance. You operate at meat speed. Vastly, vastly slower.
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