The first thing I mentioned about it to my friends was the "we should make the road safe for cars instead of making the cars safe for the road" bit. It's so telling that it's the first thing he jumped to.
Rule #1 of developing software: People will not behave the way you want them to behave. They are going to break your software, either intentionally or unintentionally, and you simply cannot find a foolproof way of making everything always work 100% of the time.
"Auto-pilot" is the same deal. People are going to want to make the software work for them the way they want it to work instead of doing what the software is actually intended to do.
Camden Williams
What's hilarious is GM is going to be producing cars with no steering wheels in 2019, and they're just now reluctantly admitting it doesn't work
Let me make a cup of coffee and I want to tell you guys about the time my ex wife and I saw Google testing driverless cars on the expressway in 1997
Brb
John Hughes
yep brb
Robert Ward
it sure is a funny code of ethics
it's kinda like how a psychologist could explain to you that switching off the news could be a good idea
but if you assume the news is fake…
Jose Lee
Okay, it was 1997 and we we're coming home from a rave in Atlanta around 4 in the morning.
We were driving down I-20, and there were barely any cars on the expressway. Suddenly, up ahead, we saw a bunch of lights, like what you'd see on a movie set or something. As we got closer, we saw that the lighting rigs were mounted on several big construction type Dept Of Transportation MegaTruck vehicles (lol forgive me for not knowing the right terminologies) they were moving slowly together down the expressway in a 'convoy' that took up several lanes.
there were several of these massive vehicles, each of them had fashing hazard lights on the backs of these vehicles. As we approached from behind we still couldn't tell what all the commotion was about. the vehicles were taking up all of the lanes except the right lane, and because they were moving slowly, I had to pass them in the right lane.
That's when it got surrealistic. As we passed them, I slowed down to drive parallel with them, and that's when we realized there were TWO CARS driving in the middle of the caravan. There were cameras on trucks ahead of them shootingvideo. The two cars had all kinds of apparatus like boxes and antenna and dishes on them….
and there was nobody driving the cars
the motion of the cars wasn't totally fluid. It's like they'd surge and slow down then surge again.
It was CRAZY….
we went home pinching ourselves
Dominic Davis
OOOPS I forgot
When I said 'google' was testing the cars, I was just guessing. The cars had weird grids on them, similar to crash test equipment. The only actual signage we saw was the Dept of Transportation logos
Samuel Bennett
But Anji and I figured the DOT was just there overseeing the safety vehicles, and the actual testing was being done by a corporation, like probably Google
Cameron Gutierrez
If you could've seen it, you'd understand just HOW surrealistic it was, with the 'airplane headlight' brightness if the lighting, the flashing hazard warning lights on the trucks, the flashing 'siren' lights, the electronic gadgets hooked to the cars, AND NOBODY DRIVING THE CARS….
all at 4 AM on I-20
it was nuts, especially back in 1997
Sebastian Stewart
It was the perfect way to end our night at the rave
Owen Green
Hmmmmm…….
Anji said she thought it was the D.O.D. and she may have been correct
