Ford Has An Idea For An Autonomous Police Car That Could Find A Hiding Spot (jalopnik.com)

Ford has submitted a patent application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for an autonomous police car that could function "in lieu of or in addition to human police officers." From a report: Now, companies always file patents for technology that may never get made, but an autonomous police cruiser seems like the logical conclusion to the development self-driving cars. But damn is it weird to read about. The patent, describes how the hypothetical car would rely on artificial intelligence and use "on-board speed detection equipment, cameras, and [it would] communicate with other devices in the area such as stationary speed cameras."

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[nitehawk214]

You are really, and truly, an idiot.

Why do you keep banging on about Moore's Law? Do you even know what it is? It says nothing about computing performance or technological progress. All it says is how many transistors can be crammed on a die. There is a lower lower limit to how big a transistor can be since you can't make it smaller than the electrons that flow through it.

This just means that future advances will be in different avenues. 3D chips, multi-core systems, optical interconnects, efficient thermal usage. All of these things are being developed today. Some of them won't pan out. Some of them will.

You are not even a Luddite. At least they admit that technology will progress as much as they dislike it. You are like the living embodiment of the argument from ignorance. "Progress won't happen because I can't figure out how it could!" Maybe you can't figure it out because you are an idiot. Did that ever occur to you?