Self driving , like carbon capture and vegan alternative foods, has billions of investment dollars behind it along with Wall street, Venture Capital, and celebrity endorsements. It never made much viable sense in the real world to replace humans with AI how much do you like talking to an automated system versus a real live customer representative? How often does the automated system even know what your problem is or answer it correctly? When I delivered for Postmates UberEats and Grubhub I had to use their stupid smartphone ap GPS. I hated it and would say a substantial problem came up about 1 time out of 10 deliveries. If I was in a newly built neighborhood the roads were wrong, the system demanded I drive through construction barriers or roads closed for a marathon or into accident scenes or jump over brick walls or the person had the wrong address in the system say because they were at work and I had the home address. I knew then this stuff would never work at scale. There are too many things that could go wrong and too many things you can't think of in advance. The AI only can correct a problem after the problem is discovered. I've always considered it vanity too....with a little control added in. Who wouldn't want to shut off your car remotely?
"Google-owned self-driving taxi service company Waymo sued the California Department of Motor Vehicles to prevent them from revealing their safety records to the public, claiming that it revealed proprietary information that could be shared with their competitors." hmmmm....didn't we just read about some other covid-industrial complex megalith whining about proprietary info?
how about a poll on stick shift vs. automatic next time? or is that just for the old people and the cubans?
LOL I should have done that! I guess I'm old fashioned but I like to feel like I'm in a car, like I'm controlling the car and that it is an extension of me. Going to sleep while the car is driving itself? What are you, five? I don't trust it...
I cannot even deal with keyless locks in electric cars; I read of one situation where a person could not open the trunk of the car because of some malfunction of the keyless system, or power outage. It seems comparable to the way they don't want doctors to have to decide anything in the (false) future narradime. This is what you get when you just want to punch a button. Also, video of a recent electric car fire where the driver had to break a window to get out due to a fire, he would have died if he hadn't been able to break the window. Glad the failures have made the news, all the way round. Stay human.
It all stems from those 0’s and 1’s. Good post, thanks. Life and evolution are complexities we can get behind, computers and AI - Smoke and Mirrors. I tried to write about this from a different perspective but hucksterism it is!
I don't get how automated vehicles are a benefit to society? It seems more like a vanity project.
One also wonders how the DOJ is looking into Tesla about this, but are blind to the jabs.
I did not expect that was where this was going. Yes, I think the human is looking superior to the transhumanist, for the spirit. Happy Halloween.
Self driving , like carbon capture and vegan alternative foods, has billions of investment dollars behind it along with Wall street, Venture Capital, and celebrity endorsements. It never made much viable sense in the real world to replace humans with AI how much do you like talking to an automated system versus a real live customer representative? How often does the automated system even know what your problem is or answer it correctly? When I delivered for Postmates UberEats and Grubhub I had to use their stupid smartphone ap GPS. I hated it and would say a substantial problem came up about 1 time out of 10 deliveries. If I was in a newly built neighborhood the roads were wrong, the system demanded I drive through construction barriers or roads closed for a marathon or into accident scenes or jump over brick walls or the person had the wrong address in the system say because they were at work and I had the home address. I knew then this stuff would never work at scale. There are too many things that could go wrong and too many things you can't think of in advance. The AI only can correct a problem after the problem is discovered. I've always considered it vanity too....with a little control added in. Who wouldn't want to shut off your car remotely?
Happy Halloween also! I may write a post about the haunted cathouse
still laughing about your graphic at the top.
"Google-owned self-driving taxi service company Waymo sued the California Department of Motor Vehicles to prevent them from revealing their safety records to the public, claiming that it revealed proprietary information that could be shared with their competitors." hmmmm....didn't we just read about some other covid-industrial complex megalith whining about proprietary info?
how about a poll on stick shift vs. automatic next time? or is that just for the old people and the cubans?
LOL I should have done that! I guess I'm old fashioned but I like to feel like I'm in a car, like I'm controlling the car and that it is an extension of me. Going to sleep while the car is driving itself? What are you, five? I don't trust it...
I cannot even deal with keyless locks in electric cars; I read of one situation where a person could not open the trunk of the car because of some malfunction of the keyless system, or power outage. It seems comparable to the way they don't want doctors to have to decide anything in the (false) future narradime. This is what you get when you just want to punch a button. Also, video of a recent electric car fire where the driver had to break a window to get out due to a fire, he would have died if he hadn't been able to break the window. Glad the failures have made the news, all the way round. Stay human.
It all stems from those 0’s and 1’s. Good post, thanks. Life and evolution are complexities we can get behind, computers and AI - Smoke and Mirrors. I tried to write about this from a different perspective but hucksterism it is!
https://open.substack.com/pub/kwnorton/p/is-the-universe-hostile-to-computers?r=boqs0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web