Driverless Cars

[sd455dan]

What happens when I get into a driverless car & don't know where I want to go?

if being chased?
Total Recall Johnny Cab - YouTube

:laughing: sorry couldn't resist

Actually once full autonomy is proven it will likely have a (surprise) me mode like google.
nice park with restaurants close?


not sure if johnny cab or this had been posted before but it was fun to watch

- a look into the GM Firebird (future) of self driving cars

even in 1956 cell towers/nav had been thought out.

From 1956: A future vision of driverless cars - YouTube

 

[3930dave]

Creating more pablum, for AI to eat....

China Is Achieving AI Dominance by Relying on Young Blue-Collar Workers - Motherboard

AI is a focus for China.

Arguably, they have the best facial recognition AI in the world today.

Us oldsters note the progression of total surveillance in the West today, and grumble about it publicly. China has a big advantage in rolling out things like facial recognition 24x7x365..... even quietly questioning the practice there could be fatal.

Rgds, D.

 

[Reg]

Am I the only one here who finds all this (as well as the increasingly present street cams) a little too "1984" for their taste? Of course it's only to "protect" us.
Personally, I find a lot of the increasingly mandated "safety" equipment in cars in general (automatic braking, lane change alerts, telematics that "phone home", etc.) rather intrusive and "big brotherish" as well. How much longer before your telematics-equipped car contacts the DMV every time you exceed the speed limit, pass on a solid line or run a stop sign so they can ticket you for that too?




OK, we get it. You like this technology. Each to their own. I happen to enjoy driving, and dread the day that this privilege will be essentially taken away. I'm in my late 60s, hopefully I won't be around to see it.

I *LIKE* technology that makes things safer, e.g. anti lock brakes, cruise control that will slow the vehicle down if/when it gets too close to the vehicle in front (i.e. maintains safe spacing/speed relationship), etc.
I used to say I LIKED the idea of totally autonomous vehicles ...because everyone ELSE needed them (joke)
Well, it would be "nice" if there was a lot less lane wander and I wouldn't be totally AGAINST the idea of vehicles automatically ratting out their drivers for going WAY over the speed limit - or crazy crossing the double line for that matter.
I really DON'T want to be the victim in someone else's accident again - been there, suffered that, etc.


If you DISLIKE things like this try strolling down the aisles in Walmart and watch the camera/monitor sets as they "see" you.
spooky ? not yet...

Turn into the guns and ammo aisle - same/similar, except now a little sub-title bar pops up to say "Facial recognition in progress"
Now, I have nothing to fear ANYWAY, but I have to believe that they;
a) Now know that I walked down that aisle
b) Have similar cameras at checkout - and can therefore link pictures of me from the G&A aisle to my credit card or ApplePay account and identify me positively as a "gun nut" (BTW, I am NOT).

It was more than a bit spooky when I was just on my way to the kids BMX bikes.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Our kids are 21 and assume tracking our ever is just a fact of life going forward. 3 of us use Omni360 full time. If I ever forget the way home they can just come and get me.

 

[Oaktree]

Our kids are 21 and assume tracking our ever is just a fact of life going forward. 3 of us use Omni360 full time. If I ever forget the way home they can just come and get me.

I don't know what's scarier...that tracking is becoming more and more prevalent, or that a whole generation of young adults doesn't think it's a big deal.
BTW, what's Omni360? I Googled it and all I got was some sort of harness to carry a baby around.

 

[3930dave]

A movie I watched recently finished up with a great line.....

"It's not that I have Something to Hide, it's that I have Nothing that I want You to See".

I too fear that younger generations don't make that distinction....

Rgds, D.

 

[prof fate]

What's more to worry about..the gov't watching us or corporations watching us?

I drive a school bus - there is a camera on me, 2 more on the kids and one looking out the front. All with audio and night vision. And GPS. And G-sensors.

I had a kindergartner and a 2nd grader have an issue on the bus - they reviewed the video. They being my boss, school board super intendant, school district lawyer, principal.

The boss told me they watched to see when/what happened to the kids - but also monitor the g-sensor (bumps, turns, accel, decel) to see if I did anything that might have hurt the kid, how many times I looked in the mirror to observe the students behavior.

Of course the schools are camera'd, our offices, the area/streets around the schools...

There was an incident near here last week, 2 girls fighting in the bathroom. A third student used her phone to record it. the third student was charged with violating some law regarding wiretapping/recording without permission.

Hmm...because it was a bathroom? This sorta thing happens all the time and nobody's every charged with anything.

 

[oosik]

And this is what we can expect more of for our future - prof fate. George Orwell got it right 35 years ago.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I don't know what's scarier...that tracking is becoming more and more prevalent, or that a whole generation of young adults doesn't think it's a big deal.
BTW, what's Omni360? I Googled it and all I got was some sort of harness to carry a baby around.

Sorry it's Life360.

Don't all vehicles of late havr a black box tracking info as well as any cell phone?

Maybe the kids are just embracing reality while we are in denial.

 

[3930dave]

Red Pill, or Blue Pill.....

Maybe it is easier, if you don't know there is a choice.....

Rgds, D.