• EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netM
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    3 months ago

    I saw a news story about this sort of thing years ago. When these driverless car experiments were first getting approved, there were some neighborhoods where the cars would basically just go to die. They’d enter a neighborhood and just stop in the middle of an intersection or slow down to a crawl and go in circles til they ran out of fuel. They have never fixed this problem, and people living in the same neighborhoods from 5 years ago are still having to go outside and shoo the cars away like some strange form of lost megafauna.

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    You can tell the people living in those condos are housebroken middle management types because if this shit was happening outside normal people’s apartments those cars would all have been vandalized so badly they’d be totaled by the insurance company

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      I for one welcome the new petite bourgeoisie class of middle managers controlled by the whims of AI.

      Seriously I do, honestly easier to tell real living breathing humans apart from people that live in pods and have R2D2 as their girlfriend.

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        These middle manager types are probably all calling the corporate offices to file complaints without understanding that if they were in the Waymo corporate offices they wouldn’t put any resources into solving the problem until the problem starts costing them money. Meanwhile the normal person just throws bricks and fucks up the gates until Waymo decides it’s worth the resources to geofence the fucking parking lot and disable honking within that area.

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    I can’t remember for the life of me where I read it, but I remember reading a kinda sci-fi/fantasyish novel in my teens that had universal ai controlled cars, and the main character asked how they didn’t get into accidents sometimes and the other characters were like “are you stupid? It’s one centralised ai controlling them all” and that stuck with me as an obvious requirement for driverless cars.

    Anyway I don’t think any current driverless car creators read that book.

    • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      che-no driverless cars coordinated and controlled from a single central source to ensure smooth operation and maximum efficiency

      che-si each car individually controlled by competing ai each trying to reduce their transit time at the expense of the other AI operated cars

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        Trains are to transit evolution as crabs are to biological evolution. If you actually try to improve efficiency in any transit system you’ll inevitably reinvent trains.

        It’s still funny that these car-brained tech bros can’t go beyond individual cars controlled independently even when faced with both the obvious downsides and inefficiencies as well as clear ways to improve car based transit.

      • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Some sort if hybrid system would be great. Knowing that there are no cars on the intersection you plan to cross would save a lot of time with slowing down to check. Equally, having on board systems to slam on the anchors because someone is in the road or whatever would be a requirement.

        • Waymos as it stands are very good at not crashing. Humans are very bad drivers and frequently hit things, the waymos have been good at not doing that with whatever system they are using now. Obviously there are a few kinks, but it’s not enough to discard the technology. A self driving car is better than a human driven one, but it’s still a car.

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      In Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer there are people artificially enhanced into supercomputers that control the world’s network of flying cars.

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      Anyway I don’t think any current driverless car creators read that book.

      Even if they did they’d get a very blue curtained takeaway like “THAT CYBERCHICK WAS HAWT” or the like, then make “the truck that Blade Runner would drive.” my-hero

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    lmao, driverless cars that can’t even coordinate parking, do a zipper merge, honking and flashing each other, etc

    these cars have learned how to drive just like humans alright

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        Back in the age of dialup, horrid noises would erupt from the telephone should one lift it from its cradle while using the internet. After decades of peace, we return to this time of disruptive sound, as driverless cars communicate bits and bytes purely through honks.

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    Driverless cars will solve all the problems of driving and if you disagree you are an ignorant Luddite. All the wasted space and honking is more efficient than you meat puppets can comprehend. smuglord

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      I think it was in a movie recently but it was teslas all going full speed to one spot and crashing. The movie was about the end of the world and it was boring. I think it was trying to be a bit postmodern but it was just flat