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Helicopter Crashes While Filming Autonomous Audi
telomerewhythere writes "A helicopter commissioned by Audi to film its autonomous Audi TT climbing Pikes Peak crashed early this morning. Four people on board were hurt, the pilot seriously. It's a surreal story — a manned vehicle crashes while the one climbing a mountain driven only by computers and sensors carries on. Here's more on the autonomous Audi, a project undertaken with the help of Stanford University."
Frighteningly obvious........
Irrelevant. The helicopter was given a pep-talk before take-off. Neither the confidence nor this determination of the helicopter were factors in the crash, and its endurance was second to none, as it has a lusty wife.
Ceci n'est pas un helicoptere
As soon as it can be proven that a car can drive better than a person when the person is trying their best to drive safely, cars will be favoured, since we know people sometimes deliberately drive wrecklessly.
The problem is not with the people who actually try to drive wrecklessly -- it is with the rest of them, the ones who drive recklessly....
Except it isn't. Having the riot police interview an elephant based on what the spoon told them with regards to the crash of a helicopter that decided to kill itself during a full moon afternoon because its turbo-girlfriend was dry humping a humvee; now that would be surreal.
This is just a story about a helicopter crash with a few coincidences. Absolutely nothing surreal.
You want statistics? There seems to be overwhelming evidence that close to 100% of the cars that cause an accident are driven by humans!
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