What are your thoughts concerning self driving cars? It seems that there will always be accidents until ALL vehicles are self driving. As long as you place human error into the equation, there will be fatalities, sadly. I really wouldn’t trust them, yet. We are at such a primitive stage.
Well, Elon Musk is, of course, putting his hand in the cookie jar.
“I remain confident that we will have the basic functionality for level five autonomy complete this year,” he said, as reported by Bloomberg.
I think it’s certainly possible to be at that point very soon. I hate driving anyways, and welcome our self-driving overlords… To the extent that Big Brother doesn’t decide to use it as a suicide tool.
Suppose you are driving in tornado country. Will the onboard autonomous computer see the tornado up ahead and make a decision to turn around? Or do you wind up in Oz?
Great point. Someone needs to sit behind the wheel and be able to override. Either that, or the on board computer needs to be tied in with weather conditions and give warnings. Still, I see a need for the override.
Maybe self driving vehicles need a system similar to air traffic control, so that everyone can be stopped at once if needed and humans are keeping their eye on traffic. I know, I know, we get into government control and all that…