Autonomous Future of Vehicles Poll.

[radio times]

Originally Posted by PHC1

Yeah I’m really on the fence about it myself. On one hand it would be nice to cruise the turnpike and completely relax but I’m sure it would take me time to get used to the idea the car driving itself and then trust it. I do enjoy the active cruise control in the meantime and not having to constantly adjust it! Nice.

I can’t see it happening in the cities until the algorithms mature enough. I think there will be problems for some time. No doubt some cities will take longer to warm up to the idea. With all the bicyclists in NYC for example weaving in and out of traffic and between cars, I can see it being a very jerky ride with AI slamming the brakes every time

I tend to walk/cycle my bike on the pavement in heavy traffic, the poison cloud is just too much. Every car a mini Chernobyl to me lungs.

[antipop]

Originally Posted by PHC1

I would imagine it is not too far fetched/sci-fi to imagine a scenario where the centralized AI platform will "see" and "control" all the moving cars in the vicinity and this way an individual car is no longer in control over anything itself but the main computer is. Knowing exactly where each and every vehicle is and having a bird's eye view sort of speak it can predict obstacles getting in the way of any moving car within its matrix, hence nearly 0% chance of collision with anything.

I would hate to live in that future

It's 1984 scary.

[SCAudiophile]

Originally Posted by antipop

I would hate to live in that future

It's 1984 scary.

+1

[PHC1]

Originally Posted by antipop

I would hate to live in that future

It's 1984 scary.

Many cities have implements “smart traffic light control” which adjusts in real-time depending on traffic flow, even in very complex grids. So in essence it is controlling us, except we are pushing the pedals to stop and go manually. I see a centralized/autonomous control as a possible extension of that concept. I doubt we will see technology like that in our lifetimes though.

What makes me uncomfortable is not the autonomous future but what’s already here and how the tech giants and government agencies are spying, tracking our every move, reading every word within our emails and eavesdropping through the smart devices that we willingly bring into our homes to entertain ourselves.

Step outside and the cameras outside are now used by FBI and ICE for facial recognition from state driver’s license database without anyone's knowledge or consent as it turns out. It was in the news the other day. This is after the recent scandal involving Snowden and NSA. Pretty obvious they will keep pushing the boundaries of technological citizen control without getting approval first. Seems the motto is “we will resort to anything and do what we have to until told otherwise by congress?”

How’s that for an Orwellian society?

[SCAudiophile]

Did anyone say 'SKYNET'????


https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/a...141207732.html


Now I'm very afraid...hope it's less buggy than Windows :-) !