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Originally Posted by VITE1
This is inevitable. The computing power and sensor capabilities are available. The software will be the key to make it safe.
It will take a few years for laws to be sorted out and then it will fast become standard equipment.
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People vastly overestimate the importance of human intelligence and perception when it comes to navigating the road - it can absolutely be completely replaced, and with improved results, by autonomous driving tech.
The argument that computers don't have the ability to "feel" the road like humans and see/anticipate what a driver might do is bunk. The computer, via sensory input (video, radar, etc.) may not see the driver in the other car nodding off, or getting angry, but it will see the 1st incremental move off-course their vehicle makes instantaneously and calculate all the probabilities/decide on safest course of action before you can blink.
Things like GPUs may not be on the level of the human brain overall, but unlike you and I the system is being designed for one task and one task only, and autonomous driving systems will blow the human brain out of the water for that single task they are designed to do.
Plus legitimate automakers are legitimately and responsibly working on this technology, and not using consumers and other motorists as crash test dummies like Tesla is. Their antics are giving the autonomous driving revolution a bad name.