“If you look at the emergence of railroads, for the most part people have learned not to stand in front of a train on the tracks,” [says Andrew Ng]
Because the train is the rail's single legal user, that's why it can afford to run at signalling-controlled speed, not by vision-limited one.
So, by his own analogy, he would like to own the street now because his SDV is the most expensive piece of traffic, does he? Next step from "it's your damn fault for being in the way" is adding the cowcatcher, then: "You on foot, you on the bike, you in the less-protected car, you have all violated the SDV's expectations, off with your plebeian heads!" That's a very different (indeed achievable, and most importantly cheaper for Ng and friends) dog-eat-dog vision from the usual technicolor utopia marketing of "SDVs will predict you and drive far more safely."
Historically, such forays into adversarial driving have been met with caltrops, or in general, an arms race.
(Also, "reprogram humans to get out of harm^Wcar's way" will only work if you can similarly reprogram deer and highway dividers to move aside for the mighty king of the road.)
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 16.6 ms ] threadBecause the train is the rail's single legal user, that's why it can afford to run at signalling-controlled speed, not by vision-limited one.
So, by his own analogy, he would like to own the street now because his SDV is the most expensive piece of traffic, does he? Next step from "it's your damn fault for being in the way" is adding the cowcatcher, then: "You on foot, you on the bike, you in the less-protected car, you have all violated the SDV's expectations, off with your plebeian heads!" That's a very different (indeed achievable, and most importantly cheaper for Ng and friends) dog-eat-dog vision from the usual technicolor utopia marketing of "SDVs will predict you and drive far more safely."
Historically, such forays into adversarial driving have been met with caltrops, or in general, an arms race.