Larry Gude
Strung Out
That happens. A while back, with two malamutes and two huskies in the house, the Rumba rolled itself out the door one day and right into traffic. I'm pretty sure it was deliberate.
That happens. A while back, with two malamutes and two huskies in the house, the Rumba rolled itself out the door one day and right into traffic. I'm pretty sure it was deliberate.
Self-driving cars would be easier.
Eventually almost all our jobs will be replaced by robots. Not long ago I read an article that says some government officials are preparing for this inevitability by figuring out how people will support themselves in a world with no jobs. If you truly think about it there is no job that can't be done better by a robot or some other form of automation. It will start with the unskilled labor positions and expand from there. One article I read said surgeons would be one of the first skilled positions to be replaced. A robot could perform surgery with more accuracy and with fewer to no mistakes. Once they perfect artificial intelligence and quantum computing there is no limit to what they can do. Personally I say bring it on, artificial intelligence will increase our technology and knowledge of the world/universe exponentially. I just hope I am around to see it happen.
The car crash business is about a trillion a year. More jobs that go away.
Based on accidents/mile, the self-driving will not cost the car crash business a single job.
According to the US Department of Transportation's National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey, 94 percent of road accidents are caused by human error, and it is said that driverless technology will drastically lower, if not eliminate this factor.
Well, What I found says auto cars will be something like 95% less accidents. Only makes sense.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...ess-cars-are-safer-than-human-driven-vehicles
I read similar reports that the ACA will lower healthcare insurance costs, too. Then I used my common sense, and realized the report is not so great.
The way it is related is what you are saying - actual implementation vs. theory.Totally unrelated. As implemented, the ACA only made matters worse. The concept, that if everyone, especially the young who don't use much healthcare, are at least paying basic premiums, there would be more total dollars for, essentially, the same level of needs. That's not what was implemented.
How do you compare that to an ongoing, known such as the date that shows 95% human error to be typical be it aircraft or hamburgers? AI driven cars are well on their way and simply will reduce accident rates, massively. :shrug:
If you stopped at the subject line, "Most Government Workers Could be Replaced by Robots", that would make a great one liner.
So much truth. LOL
And how are they supposed to train a robot to know how to tailor a contract to favor a company their congressman has stock in, or the company owned by retired admiral Yahoo. How will the robot know which rules/laws can be broken without anyone knowing or bothering to follow-up, which are expected to be ignored outright without being explicitly told (can robots infer when it's expected for them to do something illegal)? What happens when rules that are only legal because they aren't quantified (like EEO) are put into actual numbers the computer can process (you must hire the African American robot if it is more than 70% as qualified as the white robot). How will the robot postal worker know exactly which of my parcels is the most valuable and crush it, or which is the most time sensitive and needs re-routing through Albuquerque?
The way it is related is what you are saying - actual implementation vs. theory.
Ever had to reboot your computer? Ever had a glitch that held up an action you took? Ever had a sensor fail? Ever had a computer be able to look ahead to problems you can see but it can not?
Theoretically, we should all be under the rule of nice computers, because they make the best decisions. In reality, not so much.
Much less then I used to have to in the past. Technology has advanced more rapidly in the last 100 years than the previous 200,000 years before that. Modern humans have been around for 200,000 years (give or take), the electric motor was invented around the 1820's, the first programmable electric binary computer was invented around 1937, first desktop computer in 1973, first laptop computer in 1981, and so on and so forth to the point we have computers that fit in the palm of our hand that contains an unbelievable amount of memory and processing speed. When I was young I had a Commodore 64 which could store a whopping 100 Kb formatted. Fast forward 30 years and I have a tiny removable drive with a 2Tb capacity. I will agree I would not want to buy the first driverless car or flying car or any other technology that could kill me if it malfunctions but it won’t take long and they will work out the bugs to make it safer and faster and more reliable. Every idea has to start some ware and I can't wait to see what they come up with next.
Funny how people who voted for Trump to bring jobs to America now want millions of people to be out of work.
It really is an interesting idea - one that drunks and sleepy people and generally bad drivers have been hoping would happen for a long time. I am wondering how it handles heavy rain, or slippery roads, or harsh winds, or snow, or data-signal loss, or a myriad of other things. Surely someone will come on here and explain how it knows the difference between spinning tires in mud and on snow, or that it is safer when looking for someone not stopping at the red light ahead, or it can anticipate when the firetruck will turn on a red light.....but I'll just drive myself, thanks.
If you want to save money - look at government PROGRAMS that need to be retired.
I think they will only be able to have certain roads where this works, something like an Eisenhower designated highway. When you look at the variability of the roads even in perfect weather they vary greatly, not to mention construction zones.
Funny how people who voted for Trump to bring jobs to America now want millions of people to be out of work.
Well at the recent auto show INVIDIA already showed how construction zones and offroad detours (that were not programmed into the car's route) could already be handled.
I see some of the bigger issues being recognizing routing or yielding to authority. Knowing for instance if you are being flagged down by an officer in plain clothes holding a badge vs being flagged down by a thug with a gun, or knowing when to ignore rules of the road (do you have to yield to a vagrant in the street? What about a protestor? A rioter? A terrorist?).
For adverse road conditions (rain, snow, mud) autonomous vehicles are ALREADY better than humans (who can't see in every direction, or use radar to penetrate fog/rain, or react in 1/1000 of a second). Even level 2 vehicles like Google/Waymo cars are now only stopping for driver intervention once every 5000 miles or less. These are over courses/roadways meant to test adverse conditions though, not situations that require advanced AI.
The vast differences in streets makes me think that roads will have to be designated auto-drive roads that meet certain standards.