XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: rexjohns@nospam.com   
      
   "David DeLaney"  wrote in message   
   news:DqKdne12vctDTHzPnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@earthlink.com...   
   > On 2014-01-23, rex  wrote:   
   >> "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   >>> J. Clarke wrote:   
   >>>> If a self-driving car took its _only_ navigational information from a   
   >>>> GPS this would be an issue.  But the Google cars take their information   
   >>>> from a variety of sources and should not drive off of the road simply   
   >>>> because a GPS tells them to.   
   >>>   
   >>> Without massive amount of expensive changes to the roading system and /   
   >>> or a sudden, and currently immpssible, increase in the functionality of   
   >>> "artificial intelligence", there's no way to stop the cars going the   
   >>> wrong way down a one-way street (as one example) simply because Google   
   >>> Maps told them to.   
   >>   
   >> It wouldn't be hard to ensure that google maps is always up to date   
   >> with any road change like that, and to even have the self driving car   
   >> check the signs on the road that the human drivers use too.   
      
   > Dave, at least three false assumptions in two sentences,   
      
   Even sillier than you usually manage.   
      
   there may be more I'm   
   > not seeing   
      
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