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  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    8 days ago

    Interesting video but he played a bit loose with the facts. He talked in great length about that car where a woman was killed by a self driving car, but left it a crucial detail: there was a safety driver on board who didn’t do her job. Doesn’t exactly help with credibility.

    • cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      A lot of this is a game of probabilities, which I don’t really think we have.

      For instance if a normal human driver, without any automation, can prevent 80% of dangerous situations, but the automation can only prevent 50%, and in those situations the human savety driver can prevent only another 50%, because of inattention, this results in just 75% of dangerous situations prevented and the automation is worse.

      Maybe someone knows the real probabilities, I don’t.

    • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      That’s a real world example of what happens when you have self-driving (even in beta mode with some safety features turned off to prevent that from happening). Obviously the driver this manually override and stop the car before hitting the person. It doesn’t even need any searching: the story itself makes that clear if it mentions the car hit someone.

  • yonder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    8 days ago

    Another great video by NJB. I found the speculations made in the video about the future of self driving cars to be pessimistic but can totally see the future ending up exactly as he describes it.

    • thisfro@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      19·
      8 days ago

      I agree that it is somewhat pessimistic, but the key part is the amount of money in it. History has shown that capitalism (especially in the US) has long lasting impacts that we cannot comprehend yet. I think clear regulations and safety standards are crucial to make AVs useful for people.

      • yonder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        8 days ago

        Yup. The worst part is how the problems AVs claim to solve are already solved using existing technology that have other benefits like fewer emissions and physical activity.

        • TDCN@feddit.dkEnglish
          7·
          7 days ago

          It is also just as much an issue that all the problems AVs are trying to solve are 100% self inflicted due to how the infrastructure is build. Its not solving the root problem at all that is the car dependency.