The whole idea of self-driving car for masses is quite ridiculous. What are we trying to solve there? Projects like that give visibility to the company and serve as good promotional campaign. It is much easier, cheaper and more efficient to build good public transportation system. Ask the question: why would one driving robot transport just one person instead of 1 driver (or robot) carrying hundreds of passengers? Current situation in dense metropolitan areas (like LosAngeles) begs the answers about the transportation infrastructure but not about some crazy self-driving robots...
If "quantum" computer is possible then someone needs to start new project "Universal Schrodinger Solder" to turn human body into new "quantum" state -- dead and alive at the same time. I can see mind blowing possibilities there...
We need to realize that at the fundamental level we know nothing about microscopic ("quantum") world. Any statements of solving NP-complete problems is linear time or any attempts to explain how quantum mechanics works is just a hoax. It just happened to find a mathematical description of the microscopic world which works. It doesn't mean at all that "probability waves" of any kind exist. It just a mathematical model to produce hermitian forms and real observed values.
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The whole idea of self-driving car for masses is quite ridiculous. What are we trying to solve there? Projects like that give visibility to the company and serve as good promotional campaign. It is much easier, cheaper and more efficient to build good public transportation system. Ask the question: why would one driving robot transport just one person instead of 1 driver (or robot) carrying hundreds of passengers? Current situation in dense metropolitan areas (like LosAngeles) begs the answers about the transportation infrastructure but not about some crazy self-driving robots...
If "quantum" computer is possible then someone needs to start new project "Universal Schrodinger Solder" to turn human body into new "quantum" state -- dead and alive at the same time. I can see mind blowing possibilities there...
We need to realize that at the fundamental level we know nothing about microscopic ("quantum") world. Any statements of solving NP-complete problems is linear time or any attempts to explain how quantum mechanics works is just a hoax. It just happened to find a mathematical description of the microscopic world which works. It doesn't mean at all that "probability waves" of any kind exist. It just a mathematical model to produce hermitian forms and real observed values.