In all honesty, once self driving cars are an actual thing, individual car ownership won’t really need to be a thing anymore. Which is great for the environment.
Why is self driving a prerequisite? “Car as a service” is something that already exists. It failed because it needed reserved parking spots (you couldn’t just park wherever) and availability was spotty (because of the reserved parking spots).
I’m all in for something like this, but only as a supplement for a strong mass public transportation.
Because the cars wouldn’t have to necessarily park in between rides. You would just request a car and the nearest available one would come pick you up.
A Roomba doesn’t weigh 2 tons and isn’t traveling at 100kph and actively threatening the lives of nearby people.
A moving vehicle is a safety hazard to everything around it first and foremost, and the driving system must be able to account for that. Figuring out how to get from point A to point B comes after, and is very simple by comparison.
You wouldn’t need AI, or at least generative AI, to manage everything. Cars would have onboard sensors and computers to handle the driving part locally, and routes and such could be coordinated from a centralized system.
At most you might want to use some machine learning to improve efficiency, but that’s not the “AI” that people mean today.
At most you might want to use some machine learning to improve efficiency
Yeah no, efficiency and planning map routes aren’t the hard parts of self-driving. The hard parts come from dealing with all of the unpredictable situations that happen on the road - flat tire on a busy highway, deer in the headlights, power steering failure while crossing a major intersection, aggressive drivers, poor visibility due to weather conditions, a child running into the road… you can’t pre-program for situations like these because they’re contextual, dependent on local conditions in that exact moment. All of the choices that might be made are different depending on whether there is another car in the lane next to you, or in front of or behind you, or oncoming, or if it’s a bus or a dump truck or a motorcycle or a bicycle, or a ditch or a forest or the edge of a cliff, or if there’s rain or fog or ice or smoke or debris or burning gasoline on the road… and the choice needs to be made right now, in less than a second, or you run over a 4 year old.
The real world is far too complex for a fixed set of predetermined rules to handle.
In all honesty, once self driving cars are an actual thing, individual car ownership won’t really need to be a thing anymore. Which is great for the environment.
I think this idea ignores the secondary utility of cars as a storage space.
And as home batteries.
That’s one hell of an expensive storage solution.
So like trains but more expensive and without the walk to the station
Not everywhere in the US has access to those.
It’s more like self driving taxis.
There’s a huge list of places that aren’t in the US though (like, really huge).
Why is self driving a prerequisite? “Car as a service” is something that already exists. It failed because it needed reserved parking spots (you couldn’t just park wherever) and availability was spotty (because of the reserved parking spots).
I’m all in for something like this, but only as a supplement for a strong mass public transportation.
Because the cars wouldn’t have to necessarily park in between rides. You would just request a car and the nearest available one would come pick you up.
So… The worse of private cars+ the worse of taxis+“AI”?
How is it the worst of any of that? And I’m not sure why you’re assuming AI would be involved.
The self-driving part?
AI isn’t required for that. A Roomba isn’t using AI to do it’s thing.
A Roomba doesn’t weigh 2 tons and isn’t traveling at 100kph and actively threatening the lives of nearby people.
A moving vehicle is a safety hazard to everything around it first and foremost, and the driving system must be able to account for that. Figuring out how to get from point A to point B comes after, and is very simple by comparison.
But none of that necessitates the use of AI.
Depends how you define AI.
So the car drives itself with… Real Intelligence? Or just heuristic rules? Maybe a driver in Cambodia remote driving?
You wouldn’t need AI, or at least generative AI, to manage everything. Cars would have onboard sensors and computers to handle the driving part locally, and routes and such could be coordinated from a centralized system.
At most you might want to use some machine learning to improve efficiency, but that’s not the “AI” that people mean today.
Yeah no, efficiency and planning map routes aren’t the hard parts of self-driving. The hard parts come from dealing with all of the unpredictable situations that happen on the road - flat tire on a busy highway, deer in the headlights, power steering failure while crossing a major intersection, aggressive drivers, poor visibility due to weather conditions, a child running into the road… you can’t pre-program for situations like these because they’re contextual, dependent on local conditions in that exact moment. All of the choices that might be made are different depending on whether there is another car in the lane next to you, or in front of or behind you, or oncoming, or if it’s a bus or a dump truck or a motorcycle or a bicycle, or a ditch or a forest or the edge of a cliff, or if there’s rain or fog or ice or smoke or debris or burning gasoline on the road… and the choice needs to be made right now, in less than a second, or you run over a 4 year old.
The real world is far too complex for a fixed set of predetermined rules to handle.
Why is it being local contrary to AI? Why is genAI the only AI? I’m sorry, but there’s so much lack of knowledge here I’m not sure where you start.
I’m not interested in continuing a discussion with someone who resorts to personal attacks. Goodbye.
*if That is just prediction unless youre a time travelver
There are plenty of reason that its an if but hurdles in the tech, alternitives making it irrelevent or polutical hurdles potentially subverting it.