Just explained to a kid at the bar why self driving cars will never work by making him fold a napkin in half as many times as he could. He got to 7. "Ok, you only need to do that 34 more times until it reaches the moon."
I will be your drunken anticapitalist science educator for the evening.
@jwz I'll be impressed when I see one navigate one of our single track roads, with ill defined crumbling edges and potholes, and having to reverse a couple of hundred metres to get to a passing place....
The vehicles will be engineered for the terrain. They won't be very fast, at first, but they'll evolve quickly.
The "road" is an invention of the previous iteration of the car. I can see the "road" supporting automatic driving, with offramp signs saying "Resume manual control" and you'll get tickets if you don't.
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