I know that righteous indignation is the new national pastime, but I would find it a lot more interesting to hear a more nuanced discussion from this community on the topic of self-driving.
Some questions that come to mind:
- Would it contribute positively to our world if competent self driving existed?
- What are the various approaches to get from here to there, and what are their relative merits and risks?
- Assuming some approach showed promise, how should we expose it to real world conditions to allow for validation and ongoing improvement?
- Do the technically-savvy folks on this list think that a heuristic approach (i.e. a bunch of rules written by humans) could ever succeed at effective self driving in diverse conditions? Or is the machine learning + massive data approach more likely to solve it? Or do you consider it fundamentally unsolveable?
- What interesting moral and legal questions arise if effective self-driving becomes available?
- What might be the economic and environmental ramifications of a world with ubiquitous “robotaxis”?
Anyone care to pick one and take a swing at it?
Some questions that come to mind:
- Would it contribute positively to our world if competent self driving existed?
- What are the various approaches to get from here to there, and what are their relative merits and risks?
- Assuming some approach showed promise, how should we expose it to real world conditions to allow for validation and ongoing improvement?
- Do the technically-savvy folks on this list think that a heuristic approach (i.e. a bunch of rules written by humans) could ever succeed at effective self driving in diverse conditions? Or is the machine learning + massive data approach more likely to solve it? Or do you consider it fundamentally unsolveable?
- What interesting moral and legal questions arise if effective self-driving becomes available?
- What might be the economic and environmental ramifications of a world with ubiquitous “robotaxis”?
Anyone care to pick one and take a swing at it?