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Originally Posted by HotHotHeat
This is a really interesting topic. I would argue autonomous vehicles, and more broadly intelligent machines (and the companies who design and build them) will not just 'come to an end'. Liability isn't a slam dunk. We have laws that can determine fault if it can be proven the cause was design flaw or manufacturing issue, sure, but what if the machine made a decision to act, and did so outside of the 'rules' it was given?
Lots of questions are unanswered, but to suggest that will hold back the advancement of the technology isn't practical.
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They are an incredibly, incredibly long way off. What we are running into now is probably the so-called AI winter. Prognostications about the technology have been made that cannot be adequately demonstrated. The engineering itself is dramatically simple from the perspective of just adding more computing power able to crunch more data, but is still incapable of the general intelligence that is natural to humans.
So a car can move along a pre-mapped route fairly well, but put it into an uncontrolled environment, and it consistently underperforms the average human driver.
Throw in all of the regulation and ethical issues, and you are looking at a very rough road for autonomous vehicles.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6...f-driving-car/