XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 1/23/2014 5:34 PM, Robert Bannister wrote:   
   > On 24/01/2014 4:03 am, Your Name wrote:   
   >> In article , David   
   >> Friedman  wrote:   
   >>> In article <220120141849207998%YourName@YourISP.com>,   
   >>>   Your Name  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I once had map software on my laptop while I was entering St. Louis   
   >>>>> via   
   >>>>> a bridge across the Mississippi try to tell me to take a left turn   
   >>>>> from   
   >>>>> the divided interstate highway bridge a hundred feet up in the air   
   >>>>> onto   
   >>>>> the riverside jogging/bike path below.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> One example of NUMEROUS that prove self-driving cars simply aren't   
   >>>> going to happen any time soon.   
   >>>   
   >>> I don't think that follows. As best I can tell, the Google self-driving   
   >>> car doesn't rely on just GPS and maps. It has mechanisms for watching   
   >>> the actual road and traffic.   
   >>>   
   >>> You might as well argue that human driven cars aren't going to happen   
   >>> any time soon. They too rely on a combination of information sources,   
   >>> one of which is often the GPS.   
   >>   
   >> Human drivers (hopefully) also use intelligence, common sens, and an   
   >> ability to make decisions for themselves ...three things a computer   
   >> simply cannot currently have, no matter how complicated the programming   
   >> is.   
   >>   
   >> Human drivers can also read road signs no matter where they are placed   
   >> (other than behind a tree!), whereas a computer will have difficulty   
   >> doing that in EVERY instance.   
   >>   
   >> Then there are facts like many roads simply not having markings for the   
   >> computer to see, or having duplicate markings where the road has been   
   >> chaged for somereason. The possibilities for something not thought of   
   >> in the programming are endless.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Human drivers also think they can maintain a conversation on their   
   > mobile phone, another with their passengers while listening to sport on   
   > their car radio and drive at the same time.   
   >   
   That's easy to deal with.  Just make all car bodies Faraday cages.   
   Shouldn't be that hard to convince some legislative committee to mandate   
   it.  :D   
      
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