This is definitely not ideal for a literal car that somebody has to drive, for a range of reasons that range from the effectively recreational to the incredibly critical.
My grandma has a computer. She does not know computers. Heck, my parents barely know anything and they use it for the business.
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He might be right. I mean, think about it. A lot of countries around the world have functional public transportation systems for both short and long range travel meaning that many people just don't need cars. Or if they do have a vehicle its going to be one per family. That sort of thing is pretty common to see over here in Europe. Indeed, the whole idea of everyone just having a driving license by default is very odd to us. Add to that the fact there are a lot of poor countries where a motor vehicle is a luxury not everyone can afford and you easily end up in the 1 vehicle for every 5+ people range.
Yeah, the point would be well taken if this wasn't a thread about the guy whose solution to the problem is "even *more* cars, and they're all "self-driving" and can plug in anywhere - well not, anywhere. But they can go really fast, because that's what's important." Like the only real solution to transportation at scale is scaling transportation, and unfortunately robotaxi is the very definition of an untested solution to that.
As a software engineer by trade the idea of self driving automobiles frightens me. In my professional opinion we'd be safer off just going back to beast drawn carriages but having them drawn by actual demons from the pits of hell.
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lol but yeah, more people have mobile phones than grid electricity
He's a businessman not Gandhi, he's not trying to solve societies problems just make $ (and even more than making $ he wants attention hence acquiring twitter)
Honestly I would not be surprised if this was the case. I mean North Korea has 69% of its people (nice) owning mobile phones. Can the same be said for ... food?
There are more rats than there are cars (at least 2 billion vs 1.4 billion) therefore we should have rats driving cars.
I am also a software engineer and I agree with this message.
I'd honestly like to see what'd happen if we wired a rat head onto the controls of a car. It's natural instincts for self preservation combined with the fact rats are very intelligent and trainable might actually make for a decent driving brain. And its natural senses and sensory processing mechanism would be superior to anything we can cook up for a computer. So the potential is definitively there.
And having a living rat head wired into the hood of your car would just be incredibly cute.
Saw some science article yesterday about a goldfish who was wired up to drive their fishtank around
That's not what a neural network is. What you are describing is a brain machine interface. But we do agree that those are inevitable. I just can't wait to see all the weird and wonderful way they can be hacked.
