kazil posted:

PhazonLink posted:

tbf to eating McD. if I was traveling in the world and wanted a comfort food for my micro biome in my gut, I can say that McD's industrial food science makes the same product everywhere in the world.

MrMojok posted:

What is it about some people that makes them want to ride in a car that drives itself?

The entire concept is so alien and abhorrent to me.

Is there some kind of age point at which you decide “yah, I’m down with that.” ??

Maybe not an upper age range, but a lower one?

I’m in my fifties and not only do I not want that ever, I am deeply distrustful and suspicious of anyone who does.

Mr Scumbag posted:

The opening screen alone in those games is enough to give those manchildren a stroke.

euphronius posted:

Those are graphics mock ups they do to fool people into thinking the “ai” works . The car doesn’t see that. Cars don’t see.

Tesla does the same thing.

NB: I didn’t click on the YouTube

euphronius posted:

I don’t see how that is remotely possible ever but ok . I do see your point though that Tesla is so bad every other AI grift has to work from under teslas shadow . That is true

Rosalind posted:

Getting into a car is by far the most dangerous activity that the average American engages in every day. The statistical risks of human-operated vehicles are staggering--100 Americans die and 7,500 are injured every single day from motor vehicle crashes. The statistical likelihood of being in such an accident increases significantly with drinking (as has been mentioned) but also with distracted driving or driving while tired. A tired or distracted driver is, on average, as dangerous as a drunk one.

You may protest that you do not do these things. You're a perfect driver--you've never even had a fender bender. But I ask how many bad drivers do you see every single day? I can tell you as someone who did a lot of driving recently there are a lot of bad drivers out there on the road. These people are unsafe and they make you less safe. Even a perfect human driver cannot react to every possible scenario.

We are on the cusp of having the technology to drastically reduce the dangers of driving. Non-Tesla autonomous driving systems such as Waymo, Pony, etc. are already likely safer drivers than humans on average in many scenarios. These systems do not get distracted or tired. They don't hesitate in uncertain situations. Using lidar, radar, and other systems, they have a complete 360 degree view of the road. They have better response times than even professional race car drivers.

Getting these systems into cars will save lives. Every drunk, tired, or distracted driver they remove from the road is a statistical hazard averted.

And yes these systems are not perfect. I know there are lots of edge cases where you can confuse the cars using a traffic cone placed directly in front of it and there are all sorts of questions around legal liability when one of these systems does in fact cause an accident which will still happen. These are things we can solve though.

MunchE posted:

The average human driver gets in an accident once every 18 years. Basically every adult in our society operates a motor vehicle daily and the vast majority of them do so without incident. People are pretty remarkably good at navigating all sorts of complicated inputs and translating that into operating a car safely.

You buying yourself a self driving car that'll drive home for you when you're drunk is 20 years out, if ever

Kramjacks posted:

The only way to solve the problem of too many traffic accidents is to have less traffic. The solution already exists, it's busses and trains and poo poo, but that doesn't appeal to people who think they are the main character and absolutely need to have their own private transportation.

Evilreaver posted:

If I had Musk money, I would be funding pure-science initatives with the end goal of robotically dismantling Mercury to make a Dyson swarm. Get a 200-year plan in place to harvest 0.5-1% of the sun's energy- that energy surplus is what can REALLY ensure humanity's long term survival. That's enough energy to make terraformation of Mars/Venus feasible, not to mention global post-scarcity.