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Helicopter Crashes While Filming Autonomous Audi

Posted by timothy on from the send-robot-ambulances dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Uber-silly by dissy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I don't think your ambulatory computers will ever be clever enough to figure out those situations.

    That has been said about literally Everything that computers can do today. Every last thing.

    Computers will never be able to play games against humans and win.
    Computers will never be able to see and recognize objects like humans.
    Computers will never be able to speak like a human.
    Computers will never be able to read human writing.

    Computers will never be able to do this or that function nor control this or that complex system, yet today they control many systems that are used to make our lives easier.

    You've been wrong each time, and you will be wrong this time too :P