Dude, Where's My Self-Driving Car? – SOME MORE NEWS

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1. what if the trade off for a self-driving car
   was that it had a speed-governor ?
   i'd be fine with traveling at only 30MPH while i slept
   but i imagine it would annoy all the other drivers

2. I couldn’t help but laugh out loud when you said the car started driving away from the support crew trying to fix it. Has anyone wondered what happens when these cars become sentient and try to kill us? Like Dwight said to Michael about the Ed Truck robot, we better make it 2/3 size instead of to scale so that they’re easier to defeat if they turn on us.

   I was also quite surprised that you guys didn’t cover how useful this technology would be for disabled people, but I guess since it doesn’t quite work, that’s just another example of disenfranchised people staying disenfranchised (since no one is trying to fix public transit either).

3. One other problem with self driving cars that make it harder is a lack of training data. Consider ChatGPT, the reason its even able to be mildly intelligible is because the internet exists. It outputs and reads text, and the internet can provide bucket loads of easy training data for that. This also applies to image recognition, there is tons of free and definitely not illegal to use data on the internet that they can easily train from, meaning they are able to get pretty decent. This is just not the case with self driving cars. The training data pretty much has to come from real life, since something like simulations won't be able to handle all the edge cases. However, quite simply, there is not terabytes of information on what to do if your lIDAR detects certain things, or what to do if you see certain things. It just isn't available, so they essentially have nothing to train on. Humans are really good at learning from small amounts of training data, but machines just aren't. Unless a breakthrough in artificial neural nets is made the mitigates the need for giant training-sets, the only option for tesla would probably be to record data from the all their cars cameras, accelerators, and steering wheels, 30 years, then send that off to a server. Even with that much data, it probably wouldn't be enough to train anything close to a human driving skills.

4. elon's car is driving down the road the car has to choose run over the trans person or run over the whistle blower over his neglegance what happen.

   Both, the answer it both. runs over one then runs down the other.

5. "Where's my goddamned electric car Bruce?!"

6. Thank you for the great content!

7. A much easier milestone would be a self driving bus in a bus lane. Each bus only has to go on a fixed, predictable route with very few outside interactions and would be a great asset to add more service to underfunded transit agencies.

8. on the contrary… if you've read any carl sagan from the past 4-5 decades… you'd see clearly that the present IS the dystopia we've been so ignorantly (and literally) gunning for.

   easy/corruptible money rots people, businesses, society and eventually, all of civilization. the 1% joy ride at everyone/everything's expense in the meantime…

   don't forget to learn about bitcoin cody…

9. What are the Waymo taxis in Chandler, AZ using? Those have been around for years. I think that is what hit and killed that woman. To be fair I've seen the video from that many times and I don't think a person would have been able to stop either.

10. Cody if you’re going to drink alcohol, drink a glass of water before each shot, to dilute the alchol’s effects. To do this you will need somewhere to hide before each shot, and a bathroom to pee a lot. It’s a time consuming process, but you’ll drink everyone else under the table, and really clean out the ol’ urethra . (I’m not sure that’s a word).
    Good luck on the next video this one was amazing I can hardly believe we survived that explosion at the end. Great job! 💥 💣

11. 14:30, I'm on the driver's side here, and was back when it happened, notice she's all in dark crossing in the dark, not at a designated crossing, and even the bike reflectors aren't working well? Anyone in any vehicle hits that person with a bike. Any punishment is bs in that case.

12. WTFFF!!! I just started reading Infinite Jest!!!!

13. Here is what is going to happen with self-driving cars : It doesn't matter how good it gets or if it is statistically safer than human drivers, after so many accidents that involve death there will be a movement to make them illegal. In fact, IMO, if we ever get to the point where robots of any kind are sophisticated enough to perform tasks currently done by people, the people who make them better start making armies of them to protect themselves from the unemployed masses who are going to come and murder them and destroy all of their robots. Also, based on Elon's advice, I'm seriously considering getting a horse.

14. God why doesn't she shave those weird dots off of the top of her lip? Someone please help ellen misc with her appearance.

15. They would have a much easier time automating trains, but the only trains that have yet been automated are trains with isolated rail-networks so there aren't likely any random hazards to adjust for. Other trains that use an auto-conductor system also have a real human conductor aboard, just in case. In a similar situation are self-driving trucks which still keep a human driver sitting on stand-by.
    Self-driving cars are a fantasy. What they're really talking about are "A.I. Cars" and true A.I. is never, ever going to happen.
    Heck, even Human Intelligence is not as common as census data suggests, as more than half of humanity outsources their comprehension skills to one kind of asshole or another, and the other half are vilified by the first half.

16. At a ~bare minimum~, self-driving cars should be required to pass the same driving test as a human, for every version of the software (including any updates, no matter how 'minor' they're claimed to be) to be allowed on public roads

    And since it's the same software running on many cars, the same "driver", any individual incidents of dangerous driving should be counted against the software as a whole. If it does something a human would get in trouble for, that counts against ~all~ of the cars. Enough violations that would get a human banned? That software version is proven too dangerous to be on the road as well. The fact it's happening at scale shouldn't be any kind of excuse – and if ensuring that safety is too much of a burden, hey maybe they shouldn't be on the road in the first place

17. Poor Elon thought the South African company that owns the mine in Western Australia with deposits of lithium in the tonnes rather than grams like America would be his friends 😁

18. Question, how is Corporate surveillance any better than government surveillance?

19. Maybe Elon should read in the Book of Eli, too?

20. The 24/8 Paul McCartney joke made me actually go "Ha."

21. I genuinely would love to drive that awkward looking tesla truck.

22. Firetrucks should hit the autonomous vehicles and then the city should sue the AV companies vehicles for cost. OH wait they have the best lawyers because legalized bribery and legislation is the great land we live in.

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