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Waymo Patent Shows Plans To Replace Steering Wheel, Pedals With Push Button (driverless.id)
nesaefendija shares a report from Driverless: Waymo just received approval on a patent for a push-button console that replaces not only a steering wheel in a car but the brake and gas pedals, too. This reflects Alphabet's driverless arm could remain true to its original mantra of developing cars that pilot themselves without human intervention. In many ways, the push-button controls give the riders the same level of control you might have in an elevator, largely confined to just being able to make an emergency stop or to set the vehicle into motion by pressing the "GO" button.
An elevator with the Mac interface would have a single button, "There". After all, I'm already "Here". By all means, let's take that kind of thinking and apply it to several tons of metal with passengers aboard. What could possibly go wrong?
I WILL decide where the car goes by driving it myself.
After rebooting my laptop twice today, I have no confidence in a computer to
1. Take me where I want and...
2. Do it safely.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
If these people truly believe their software and systems will never make a mistake, will never have a problem, will never be hacked, will be the perfect antidote for what ails us, they should be fired right now.
The steering wheel and pedals are as simple as driving can be. Especially for how lazy the vast majority have become by driving automatic rather than manual gearboxes. What they are planning to do is increase the complexity which increases the chances for something to go wrong which increases the likelihood of problems.
Simplicity is the key to everything. This is not simple.
Jet Airliners and Jet Fighters have someone in a cockpit. They have yokes and Sticks and can take control of the aircraft at anytime.
Neither of them take off or land by themselves.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
No for the love of God NO.
For the sake of anyone that has been taken into bad areas and killed, or in Seattle where Google maps wants to take you off then back on I-5 in the middle of the city to going to the *completely* wrong place.
Don't get me started on the worse ones like Bing and *shudder* apple.
Do not tie these apps to an autonomous machine on public roads moving at lethal speeds without intelligent oversight in between. Don't even try and pretend that current "AI" or "machine Learning" is better than a human. All testing so far has been done under perfectly ideal conditions without having to account for degraded infrastructure or vandalized signs. ( https://www.bleepingcomputer.c... )
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.