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I think that you highly underestimate how bad humans are at driving. Being better than a human driver is a very low bar to pass.
Being 100x better than a sober, attentive human is a very high bar to pass.
I think this whole open source and right to repair/modify will be very interesting with self-driving cars, because of their interaction with the commons. Here are some issues. There have been some discussions about the ethics of self-driving cars if it should sacrifice the lives of the people in the cars to save more lives. In a right to repair/modify wouldn't a lot of people pay to have the algorithm changed for the…
I think the ethical question is greatly overblown. The odds of being in a situation where there's any sort of ethical choice to make are so remote as to not really be worth considering. 99.9999% of the time, the correct choice when faced with an impending crash will be to brake as hard as the driving surface allows and steer to avoid obstacles as much as possible. In any case, tinkering and commons already intersect…
Another more annoying aspect would be to mod your vehicle to have emergency vehicle preference, among other vehicles. I.e. impersonate/invehicleate (?) an emergency vehicle to get a nice right of way.
I think this whole open source and right to repair/modify will be very interesting with self-driving cars, because of their interaction with the commons. Here are some issues. There have been some discussions about the ethics of self-driving cars if it should sacrifice the lives of the people in the cars to save more lives. In a right to repair/modify wouldn't a lot of people pay to have the algorithm changed for the…
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I think the ethical question is greatly overblown. The odds of being in a situation where there's any sort of ethical choice to make are so remote as to not really be worth considering. 99.9999% of the time, the correct choice when faced with an impending crash will be to brake as hard as the driving surface allows and steer to avoid obstacles as much as possible. In any case, tinkering and commons already intersect…
Wow, I just looked up "rolling coal". I can maybe get the political protest aspect---even if I disagree, but blowing the smoke at pedestrians, cyclist or even just other cars seems like one of the most dickish things ever.
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Yes, this situation is in the realm of the plausible, which has little to do with my comment. I'm not arguing against an analysis of the decisions made by a self-driving system. That's essential. I'm arguing against applying ethical models that utilize knowledge outside the realm of the knowledge or "reasoning" capacity of the drive algorithms. To continue your example, I'll pose that any system with unilateral behav…
There's a whole kind of unpleasant but interesting topic about attacks against behavior of self-driving cars. I think I saw an earlier HN thread that suggested that they might put occupants at greater risk of kidnapping because the cars could refuse to take evasive actions that endanger or injure a kidnapper (or just violate a traffic law). This risk might be farfetched, but it may illustrate the concern about people…
What alternative would a human take? Would they kill the kidnappers by driving over them?
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Except the custom SSD is unbelievably fast and soldered RAM inarguably takes up less space than RAM chips...
Except for the $200 premium apple chargers to go from a paltry 128 to 256 I could get double that from an SSD on Amazon... Not to mention the $200 premium they charge for RAM. I can get 16gb of crucial RAM for the older MBPs for $56.99. I'll pay to play eventually but I'm not happy about it.
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iPhones are reasonably easy to repair some of the major components still, but Apple laptops have been getting worse in that regard, with batteries glued in and unserviceable, etc.
Right or wrong, if consumers have the choice between a thinner, lighter laptop with better battery life and a more clunky laptop that is easier to repair, most appear to be choosing the former over the latter.
I once had to fix a fairly complex piece of electronics and when I asked the company for a repair, they told me the directions over the phone. Unscrew this, take that out, check this, boom. I was more than impressed by their confidence in their hardware.
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There's a whole kind of unpleasant but interesting topic about attacks against behavior of self-driving cars. I think I saw an earlier HN thread that suggested that they might put occupants at greater risk of kidnapping because the cars could refuse to take evasive actions that endanger or injure a kidnapper (or just violate a traffic law). This risk might be farfetched, but it may illustrate the concern about people…
>I think I saw an earlier HN thread that suggested that they might put occupants at greater risk of kidnapping because the cars could refuse to take evasive actions that endanger or injure a kidnapper What alternative would a human take? Would they kill the kidnappers by driving over them?
These scenarios are kind of vague because they don't make it clear whether the self-driving car lets a human driver take over and take full responsibility.
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Right or wrong, if consumers have the choice between a thinner, lighter laptop with better battery life and a more clunky laptop that is easier to repair, most appear to be choosing the former over the latter.
The two are not mutually exclusive. I don't think gluing everything together is purely engineering decision.