11-17-2017, 12:13 PM
Well like, "maintain air speed, altitude, and heading" is called, uh, "flying a plane". And there are definitely programs that can land a plane without pilot intervention. Sure navigation on the ground is more complex, but you trust an airplane to fly "mostly autonomously", and you don't really even think about it.
I dunno. I know computers can fail, but so far the tech seems solid. Most of the incidents related to autonomous vehicles have been errors in humans, not in the machines, like this.
Clearly the fault of the delivery driver, which, more clearly, wouldn't have been an issue if computers had been running the show.
I see accidents literally every day on I-64 and I-81 and they're all caused by fucking freight trucks. The sooner those big bastards can be switched to computer driving, the better as far as I'm concerned.
I dunno. I know computers can fail, but so far the tech seems solid. Most of the incidents related to autonomous vehicles have been errors in humans, not in the machines, like this.
Clearly the fault of the delivery driver, which, more clearly, wouldn't have been an issue if computers had been running the show.
I see accidents literally every day on I-64 and I-81 and they're all caused by fucking freight trucks. The sooner those big bastards can be switched to computer driving, the better as far as I'm concerned.
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