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Dude, they can't even make a robot walk in a mall without running into something. Let alone drive down a road at 50 mph with a plethora of obstacles and dangers no one will be able to program for."According to biologists, the human brain has approximately 90 billion nerve cells which are linked together by, quite literally, trillions of connections called synapses. Taken together, this system of elaborate connections within the brain provides “hundreds of trillions of different pathways that brain signals travel through.”
In an effort to mimic this digitally, scientists a few years ago needed more than 82,000 processors running on one of the world’s fastest supercomputers to mimic just 1 second of a normal human’s brain activity."
How powerful is the human brain compared to a computer?
And the brain performs many, many tasks. In order to operate a driverless vehicle, the computer does not need to be more powerful than the human brain. It simply takes inputs (of which the computer can handle more simultaniously) and performs programmed actions.
And, as my previous link shows, many top people in the field are projecting driverless cars in the near future.
Dude, they already HAVE made cars that navigate roads in traffic, respond to stoplights and various signs, navigate roundabout intersections and avoid accidents at various speeds. I am sure there are rare situations that might come up. But given the death, destruction and costs of our current drivers, claiming this is all a PR stunt is ridiculous.
I used to work near a experimental area where one was driving around quite a bit. Saw it all the time.
I test drove a Tesla Model S a couple of years ago. The technology was amazing then. I was fascinated by the fact that the car could "read" the speed limit signs and notify you if you exceeded it by whatever margin you set. That car could haul ass too!
And two trunks!