Okay cool, now try landing 100,000 rovers all at the same time while dodging other rovers. Do you expect a 100% success rate?

The folks blindly defending this stuff have likely never worked in a technical trade. I’m with you man. This stuff will come out someday, sure. Years later, they might even get it 99.99966% reliable. But you better believe there are going to be some growing pains, and the swapping of one form of preventable accident…

how much more stress with the hovering hand than it is to put your fucking hands on the wheel and drive like Henry Ford intended you to?

I’ve been saying this for as long as self driving cars have been in the news. Computers are made by human and programmed by humans, therefore they will still screw up like humans (although POSSIBLY not as frequently) I’m not sure why everyone likes to think they’re some infallible technology that came here from…

Counter-point: planes flying on autopilot are flying blind on pre-set, pre-approved courses. They have a highly-qualified team of humans and computers constantly scrutinizing their various courses from the ground, and more highly-qualified humans sitting at the controls ready to manually input course modifications if…

...typical default comment when one’s argument is rendered invalid. Thanks!

“It will kill interest in the tech or give it the unfair label of ‘unsafe’ before even fully developed.”

A train wheel breaking is a pitiful bullshit analogy, as that has more to do with metallurgical defect rather than A.I. judgment calls based upon an unforeseen chain of events. You’re not comparing apples to oranges - you’re comparing apples to lawnmowers...

Can I be in your will? Because if you put that much faith into a computer controlling your car, you won’t be around long.

Humans are effectively ‘self-driving vehicles’ when they get behind the wheel of a car, relying on sensory data and ability to respond and anticipate road and driving conditions. Truth is, we are not that great at it in that so many accidents would be avoidable if we weren’t so easily distracted or if didn’t take so…

You guys keep coming up with terrible analogies. None of those machines have to perform constant and major calculations every second. Trains and elevators are fixed and on tracks. Their machinery is basic. They perform no calculations to route their course. The more things that can go wrong the more that will go…

Mostly shows that “semi-autonomous car” concept is a joke.

If your commute is “soul crushing” you have bigger problems than actually having to drive.

That’s another side to the argument. You shouldn’t trust anyone on the road nor should you trust self driving vehicles. That’s how you avoid accidents. If you want to trust your life to a glorified iPhone or Nexus then go for it! I’m good with how things are though.

The amount of obstacles in the air are exceptionally minimal and the calculations needed to stay in flight and on auto pilot are nominal. Despite having the ability to maintain auto pilot you still have full control, physical interfaces and you have a pilot and co-pilot.

Right? Just take the bus or a train. I don’t love driving, but I do like it, not enough that I’d want my car in control since I like the fact that you have to kind of think when driving.

Tesla has already locked an owner out of the car he purchased because they required him to bring it to them for “recertification” after it was involved in an accident and instead of taking it to Tesla, this guy fixed it himself.

Yeah the tail lights and the Toyota badging in the back make this thing.

Back in a past life, when I had my TS/SCI, mafia wars was a popular thing on Facebook. In order to play the stupid game, you had to have a big network of “friends” to use for collecting in-game resources, and didn't always know everyone in your network. I got a call from an OPM investigator one day saying my clearance…