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Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco

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Re: Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco

#71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's fine by me if self-driving cars need help and get it, so long as the technology is beneficial. I think it is.

Ok, on what grounds is technology that performs a job that humans can generally do better at beneficial in the broad sense? That it's benefitting a handful of individuals who profit off eliminating jobs isn't in question, but where's the upside for the rest of us?

My mom (who is legally blind) wouldn't have to resort to driving herself to her doctors appointments when myself and my brother are unable to due to work.

Re: Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco

#76
This might be a naive question, but are driverless lanes being considered? For instance we have bike lanes all over the US. It might make sense to make a similar investment for AI-friendly lanes to help transition to driverless transportation.

Re: Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco

#77
post #73

This is good, this is how the AI learns and gets better. Just like a learner driver who stalls the engine, forgets to put on a turn signal and can't keep up with traffic. We've all got to learn sometime.

Plus there is an opportunity for all the cars to learn the same lesson at once and forever.

Also humans can learn from this too. It’s not hard to imagine a new type of safety cone that has an explicit sign for autonomous vehicles to stop far far away.

Re: Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco

#79
post #73

This is good, this is how the AI learns and gets better. Just like a learner driver who stalls the engine, forgets to put on a turn signal and can't keep up with traffic. We've all got to learn sometime.

Only if the incident was avoidable, which isn't clear from the article/photo.

Re: Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco

#80

This might be a naive question, but are driverless lanes being considered? For instance we have bike lanes all over the US. It might make sense to make a similar investment for AI-friendly lanes to help transition to driverless transportation.

It'll be a dark, sick twist that driverless cars will get their own protected lanes in many American cities before bikes do.
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