who is this for?
Apparently “it’s not just Baby Boomers growing increasingly fearful of giving up the wheel to a computer” in the ol’ “self-driving cars.”
duhhh.
Does the Blue Screen of Death not ring a bell?
[with added New Meaning?!??]
“One of the greatest deterrents to progress in this field is consumer acceptance,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao told Bloomberg News last week at a department-sponsored conference in Detroit. “If there’s public concern about safety, security and privacy, we will be limited in our ability to help advance this technology.”
Don’t even get me started on the whole Privacy & Control™ issue…
It’s not only FEAR™; it’s reluctance to give up autonomy and Agency as a Free Individual. That’s something those bureaucrats and urbanites seem to have trouble comprehending. …or they FEAR™.
Most commuters don’t have access to a self-driving car, so Chao has called on Silicon Valley to “step up” and explain how they work. She and other regulators advocate for autonomy as a solution for curbing the hundreds of horrific collisions that happen every day in regular automobiles. Among those that end up being fatal, 94 percent are caused by human error, according to U.S. authorities.
It would be soooooo much more reassuring to have a computer glitch send you hurtling to a fiery crash. Cuz there’s absolutely no human error in ‘puter programming…
Earlier this year, a Tesla Model S car operating on autopilot crashed into a rear of a truck. The driver was watching a movie at the time of impact and failed to override the autopilot system to avoid the collision. He died in the crash.
Tesla buyers agree to contract terms that require drivers to keep hands on the steering wheel at all times, even when operating the autopilot.
Ok — if humans MUST [by lawyer device contract] remain alert At All Times — ready to rescue the computer system when it fails — how is this a viable system? Howinhell does this bypass the human error ‘problem’?
Point: Blown.
Consumers will only become comfortable with driverless cars after they ride in them, Mary Barra, the chief executive officer of General Motors Co., said this week.
…“You can talk about it, but until you experience it,” self-driving cars are hard to comprehend, Barra told reporters at the GM factory building the Bolts north of Detroit. “Once you’re in the vehicle and you see the technology, you understand how it works.”
Sure thing. Cuz crawling into one of these tiny DeathMobiles™ will instantly confer to me all the knowledge and understanding of a Phd in Computer Science / Engineering.
[at which point I imagine I would run screaming into the forest]
yepperee.
Maybe we can invent another machine: one that, upon entry, will confer all the knowledge and understanding of a PhD in the History of Human Freedom, the benefits and opportunities thereof, and the Constitution?
…or one that will confer all the knowledge and understanding of a PhD in Damn Stupid Proggie Over-Regulatory Ideas.
Still watching LeMans, so you get another fun, slow-weekend vid.
