Disabling Self-Driving Cars with a Traffic Cone
Disabling Self-Driving Cars with a Traffic Cone
Why do people hate on self-driving cars?
They are creating a bunch of traffic problems in cities like San Francisco where the driverless car companies are essentially allowed to beta test their vehicles on public streets. They stop in the middle of the road and block traffic and emergency vehicles. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/driverless-taxi-cruise-waymo-18157172.php
Because they provide very few, if any, actual solutions to the problems created by car-oriented society.
In their current iteration I totally agree. However, long term we could shift away from needing to own a car and it would be an Uber like experience for everything.
If I could have a car waiting for me every morning at 7:30 to take me to work and then hit a button when I’m ready to go home I would consider it. Maybe I’d rent a car if we needed to do a road trip.
Because ML is not very advanced. It is barely capable of basic functionality. It does not have the capacity to deal with the enumerable edge cases. Those are irrelevant collateral damage for the corporate investors only interested in profit.
We live in a society (in the USA) that has a tenth of the laws and protections of any other western country. This is the real "billionaire battle." All the stupid polarized politics is about controlling the legislature to prevent effective legislative discussion. It is a dos attack. The content is irrelevant to them, but the more radical rhetoric is required to maintain control.
This paradigm, that individuals are nothing more than collateral damage in the wake of capitalists like the blood emerald African space Karen, is clearly seen with the policy of not leaving a paper trail and only verbally addressing any issues with their vehicles internally at Tesla. They are not legally required to physically document such things by law. It is a massive legal oversight, but it is intentional, and the result of strategic politics. This is what the billionaires are funding. The Republican party is all about mobilization of convenient idiots in the cause of corrupt loopholes. It is all about the loopholes.