Disclaimer-I work in AI projects myself. But I wonder why not focus on getting world to a more livable standard everywhere and then if we need self driving cars we will do it. There are so many people in poor places who would be happy to manufacture stuff etc train them instead of training the models first? Am I missing something here?
The problem with your argument is location. People in nepal willing to drive for minimum wage doesn’t help traffic in the us. Move those nepalese here and you’d have to pay them more to be fair. Uber drivers now are not happy with their pay. Minimum wage is a lot more than an autonomous vh costs to run. Problem with manufacturing in poor places is... 1. Logistics cost. $5 to manufacture, $5 to ship, and then turn around time between design and product is long. 2. Not easy to set up. Foxcon has over a million people working for them in a small region. It is a marvel of organization! Imagine scattering. 3. People risk. Not everyone is an honest worker. If you have managed manufacturing, you would know. This costs a lot and incurs a risk. People steal, fake, etc. 4. Many americans are not happy with sending jobs over seas.... Bottom line. It makes business sense to automate.
The idea, of course, is that algorithms will do it for less than minimum wage. Also, it opens so many other opportunities. E.g, in areas where labor is not available, you can travel in your own car drunk without having to drive it etc. We need to accept that pure capitalism is flawed. There is no trickle down effect, no end to greed. The rich will keep getting richer. Technology only accelerates it. Alternatives closer to socialism need to be explored.
Yes that is the main problem. Getting clearer by the day the rift between developed places and underdeveloped nation's will just be widening as time goes by and we automate everything and switch to universal incomes
The alternatives were explored once, in the country that doesn’t exist anymore. Wouldn’t want the same future for other countries.
You're narrow minded if you think autonomous driving AI is trivial. It is absolutely the future and it will fundamentally change transportation.
Never said it was trivial. And I am all for automation, like exo skeletons and manufactuting have clear advantages and improve people's safety.
So many issues to overcome. Driving in snow and rain, for example...
Stupid post
Lol Uber, is this company just full of non empathetic robots
The argument for self driving cars for me is mostly one of safety. Self driving cars have a huge advantage over humans in that they can see the road in all directions all the time. Humans aren't particularly great at driving cars and it's quite deadly. Cars are dangerous. The amount of risk we take depends on the day our mood focus changes. Machines can be just as safe at all times. It still has a good ways to go, but even so there have been how many miles driven by self driving cars without a death? How many miles per death by human driver on average?
I would still take a self driving Uber over most of the human Uber drivers that have picked me up at 3am
The world of capital hates human beings because human beings would want more. U can train people to drive and then they may go to drive for more pay. They would not be happy to drive for minimum wage forever. But machine will.
It is not just that. The world has to move forward. Say uber uses driver to drive for minimum wage. Lyft can come along with lower fare by using autonomous vh and put uber out of business. See amazon over toysrus. See netflix over blockbuster.
I agree but that only works once we run out of people