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Old 05-27-2015, 06:24 PM   #95
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The whole thing would fall apart in winter anyways, auto driving cars on ice introduces unpredictable factors that would nearly guarantee issues. Imagine if nobody knows how to drive and there's a flash freeze. Good luck getting to work.
Unpredictable eh? So a human would use what, psychic powers to deal with these situations better than a machine?

Driving a car involves calculations of physics, situational awareness, and basic decision making. Only in the last of those three are humans better performers than machines - so far. The problems facing traffic aren't exactly difficult to comprehend, and huge amounts of money and research are going to be thrown at it. Thinking that they won't eventually work it out, even if it takes a decade or two, is just wishful thinking based on a misunderstanding of what computers are and aren't good at.
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