Self Driving Cars

[Msterbeau]

We've been seeing ideas for this since before the Jetsons cartoons. The basics of the technology have already been demonstrated to work, but not yet close to what is required for the real world. What are your thoughts?

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/fu...ving-part-1.ars

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

People are not allowed to be within reach of a robot when it's "working" for a reason. Until there are major strides in AI, no, we do not need a new way to get ourselves killed.

[Msterbeau]

Until there are major strides in AI, no, we do not need a new way to get ourselves killed.

Yup. Granted... "robots" in most cases (In factories) are only programmed to do one thing, They are not designed to interact at all except with the task at hand. I see the possibility of self driving cars within our lifetimes, but it will be in small steps.

[Destroit]

In Soviet Russia, car drives you.

(Sorry, couldn't help myself)

[Homicidalheathen]

in one way it would be good...no more pile ups from tailgaters but trusting your life to machinery?

naw...

http://www.antony-anderson.com/cruise/6-freq.htm

i heard a story about a cruise control that got stuck and caused an accident...and fear the same sort of thing might happen

[freydis]

In Soviet Russia, car drives you.

(Sorry, couldn't help myself)

*snort*

[Head Wreck]

you can buy Audi A3's over here with Automated Reverse parking. all the driver has to do during tp process is put the car in 1st gear when it asks, steering clutch and gas are all automated.

not available yet on other audi models, a college in work scoffed its because the A3 is a womans car

[Rev.Reverence]

People are not allowed to be within reach of a robot when it's "working" for a reason. Until there are major strides in AI, no, we do not need a new way to get ourselves killed.

+^{as many as I can be}

[Troy Spiral (13)]

In the long term yeah sure. There are plenty of automated tasks that "a machine couldn't do" that are almost exclusively done by machines now. Shorter term its just another one in a long string of yet-to-be-realized technologies.

Machines will repair themselves, design themselves and pick their own jobs at some point. Driving a car will be fairly simple for A. I. at some point.

If we manage not to blow ourselves up the level to which artificial intelligence will get is a bit scary. Once machines can start designing themselves better than a human can design them (parts of this are already true) and they can start to "think" in abstract terms and learn, the speed at which they will learn will outstrip the speed at which human learning evolves.

Thus creating the predicted "Singularity", to oversimplify: The idea is, eventually A.I. could get so advanced that it trying to talk to us about its higher thought processes and new ideas would be like us trying to explain long division to a goldfish. Which, even though it sounds far fetched at first glance, seems plausible given enough time. Originally a sci-fi concept, now taken fairly seriously in many segments of the scientific community.

[Rev.Reverence]

In the long term yeah sure. There are plenty of automated tasks that "a machine couldn't do" that are almost exclusively done by machines now. Shorter term its just another one in a long string of yet-to-be-realized technologies.

Machines will repair themselves, design themselves and pick their own jobs at some point. Driving a car will be fairly simple for A. I. at some point.

If we manage not to blow ourselves up the level to which artificial intelligence will get is a bit scary. Once machines can start designing themselves better than a human can design them (parts of this are already true) and they can start to "think" in abstract terms and learn, the speed at which they will learn will outstrip the speed at which human learning evolves.

Thus creating the predicted "Singularity", to oversimplify: The idea is, eventually A.I. could get so advanced that it trying to talk to us about its higher thought processes and new ideas would be like us trying to explain long division to a goldfish. Which, even though it sounds far fetched at first glance, seems plausible given enough time. Originally a sci-fi concept, now taken fairly seriously in many segments of the scientific community.

*in movie voice*

..then it will be dooms day...

..good thing I already have a proper post-apocalyptic hair cut...(ya' never know when that silly old appocolypse will hit...boyscout motto..BE PREPARED)

[SaGa]

its a long ways away. they will probly hit it up slowly. like put in wirelesss transmittable speed caps first on newer cars. its about 50 years thou before these self drivable cars whould be out, bye then they will have everything automated enough where cars will just "talk to eachother" so there whould be less visual sensors. its just going to happen so slowly no one will notice. since people still drive older cars that wont have these gps and wireless communication. it botches the self driving car system a bit.

[sass_in_the_pants]

I don't care.

I want a flying car.

I can't die until I have a flying car.

Do these robots text while they're driving? No? Bring em on then, bring em on.

[Msterbeau]

its a long ways away. they will probly hit it up slowly. like put in wirelesss transmittable speed caps first on newer cars. its about 50 years thou before these self drivable cars whould be out, bye then they will have everything automated enough where cars will just "talk to eachother" so there whould be less visual sensors. its just going to happen so slowly no one will notice. since people still drive older cars that wont have these gps and wireless communication. it botches the self driving car system a bit.

Much of the technologies in terms of mechanics and sensors is already here. What's lacking is the brainpower to harness it all to the degree needed to take in all the info , process it and make decisions. Something we do easily.

[SaGa]

Much of the technologies in terms of mechanics and sensors is already here. What's lacking is the brainpower to harness it all to the degree needed to take in all the info , process it and make decisions. Something we do easily.

well i wasnt speaking technology. thats the easy part. its getting it into the system and putting trust into it... if all cars where automated, it be a easy step, but when a non automated car does something unpredictable and the ai does not see it coming. it could mean a nice accident.

one huge step whould be getting all cars tagged onto gps type systems. or the most reliable system. im sure the goverment whouldnt mind doing THAT. now the people on the other hand whould fight that one for a while. this is being worked on for a while. im sure it will be law in 5-10 years

[Simon Bar Sinister]

kinda related, I guess...the USAF plans to phase out human fighter pilots by the mid-'20s.