Every manufacturer has some form of adaptive cruise control. While their grace and sophistication vary, they’re all pretty legit at detecting obstacles and avoiding collisions on the highway.
People don’t care. They don’t use them, either because they straight don’t use cruise control, or the idea of a machine driving them around scares them.
Even when fully autonomous driving becomes something cars can do, people don’t drive like machines. They like to speed and change lanes and take on-ramps at 110.
That’s part of the fun. Nobody’s going to sit in the back seat of their own car and get driven around by a ghost. They’ll drive their cars. A machine that requires no operator input to move about in the world does not exist, and is not on the verge of existing.
The commercial application of self driving tech is one thing - even then, I think it assists the humans more than replaces them. If you’re running a shipment from Kentucky to Texas and you blow a tire a hundred miles out of Nashville, the truck can’t change its own tire.
What if it’s confronted with a problem it can’t solve because of a hole in its data?
What if the cargo is dislodged and strewn across the highway?
I’m sorry, I just see humans having a little more utility than a cruise control system.
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Rowan Roy W-M - February 15, 2024
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