Probably has something to do with you always being like 1 second from crashing into something in a car at all times.
Self driving or autopilot in cars is a terrible idea since the computers are terrible at making actual decision. It works great in airplanes because 1 you're not a second from crashing into shit at all times and 2 its programmed and monitored by the person in control, the whole point is to reduce the workload so you can plan ahead not watch movies while it takes you to the liquor store
The only way I can see autonomous cars working with current tech is in an access controlled road with all vehicles centrally controlled. At that point just build a train holy shit.
Yeah in the discourse around self driving cars everybody pretty much acts like people drive like the law says that would theoretically be safe. Which they absolutely do not, and if they did, car traffic would be one great big gridlock.
Which is why like no company operates any of the truly autonomous one at more than pedestrian speed. Suddenly you can't blame a guy for it anymore, that's on you now.
Tesla is of course a forerunner in this field again with their "just roll a stop sign" option. Which, to be fair, everybody does anyways, but seeing how EV autonomous cars is what will save us from climate change to most of the population and car accidents are already considered acts of god with no actual causes, I'm not sure we're not gonna see the things just plow through people regularly
I would simply add an if statement for every possible edge case :very-smart:
They're going to have call center-like buildings filled with thousands of barely-paid drivers, remotely controlling other people's cars like a video game.
A chauffer gig economy.
They would be outsourced to the third world and there would be regular accidents due to internet lag.
remote human supervisors
That's a fancy way of saying exploited peoples in the developing world being paid literal pennies.
If you make fully automated HGVs you remove the only element that makes me question hijacking them. If there is no human on-board that truck full of food I have absolutely no problem with anyone that wants to take it and feed the homeless.
Umm... uhhhh... but trains ruin the view and kill billions of birds every day.
