Humans Can’t and therefore Should Not Drive

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upepo

Elder Lister
Driving is the one peace-time human activity that posts the highest number of deaths and casualties. If it were any other human activity, by now it would have been outlawed or heavily regulated. Annually, the roads are responsible for close to 1.35 million deaths. This makes roads the leading cause of death in the 5-29 age-group. These statistics lead us to one conclusion; humans are ill-equipped to operate vehicles. Luckily, we will not live with this costly undertaking forever. One man, Elon Musk, was visionary enough to foresee a future where humans need not take control of lethal, fast-moving machines. This vision lead to the founding of Tesla Motors, whose selling point is clean energy, but whose real reason for existence is to take driving away from humans. A few decades from now, roads will be intelligent, and cars even more intelligent. All a driver will be required to do is to indicate a destination and the car will work together with the road to arrive at the destination efficiently. By this point, driving will be illegal for most categories apart from professional drivers.

Fig.1: The developing image of an accident yet to happen any time from now.

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That's a nice story, vitu on the ground ni very different the complexity of building an Artificial Intelligence that can drive is very high, and many many years from being realized, there are many edge cases that computers cannot handle, i don't think the vision you have been mentioned will be realized in our lifetime.
 
Bolo Yeung said:
That's a nice story, vitu on the ground ni very different the complexity of building an Artificial Intelligence that can drive is very high, and many many years from being realized, there are many edge cases that computers cannot handle, i don't think the vision you have been mentioned will be realized in our lifetime.
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Tesla is already self-driving on normal roads. With smart roads, it will be possible to call your car to come pick you up from the bar.
 
Bolo Yeung said:
It's not legal to have teslas driving themselves in many states in the US, because of safety concerns, there are even trackers of deaths caused by teslas, https://www.tesladeaths.com/
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The illegality of Teslas in some states has nothing to do with their safety but more to do with the question of legal culpability i.e. who takes the blame in case of an accident. The quoted statistics are misleading because not all the accidents involved Tesla vehicles in autopilot. So far, official statistics indicate that only two deaths have been caused by Teslas on autopilot. This represents 1 death per 320 miles, which makes Tesla four times safer than normal cars.
 
I see 'Tesla drove off a cliff' in those stats and shudder. Trust a robot to give you a terrifying final seconds!
 
you cannot take away the fun that is driving. get a good powerful car and a wiseman's brain to boot and you're good to go.
 
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