The lightsaber analysis was pretty short sighted. A lightsaber, according to the way stuff works in the movie, would have to work like this:
Take a shield and make it into a cylinder that is closed at one end then shoot a laser beam into it.
In the movies, tangible stuff like flesh can pass through a shield but laser weapons cannot right? So that being the case, someone's arm could pass through the shield that contains the laser only to be ultimately chopped off by the laser itself. Comments?
Seems like they are out of their area of expertise here. If they can't make an OS that doesn't crash, how do they expect to accomplish cars that don't crash? Will I have to click on "Start" to turn the car off?
Seriously though, it should be obvious that this is a technology that can be misused as well. To really accomplish collision avoidance, you would have to have data from angles that the car may not have sensors for. I'm talking about GPS or other possible solutions that may be questionable. Are we going to end up with marketing companies generating ads for you as a driver based on places that you frequently visit? What is the real goal here?
There isn't enough money in just selling a software solution for something like this - there has to be something else - some other way of leveraging it. That is the component that scares me.
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The lightsaber analysis was pretty short sighted. A lightsaber, according to the way stuff works in the movie, would have to work like this:
Take a shield and make it into a cylinder that is closed at one end then shoot a laser beam into it.
In the movies, tangible stuff like flesh can pass through a shield but laser weapons cannot right? So that being the case, someone's arm could pass through the shield that contains the laser only to be ultimately chopped off by the laser itself.
Comments?
Seems like they are out of their area of expertise here. If they can't make an OS that doesn't crash, how do they expect to accomplish cars that don't crash? Will I have to click on "Start" to turn the car off?
Seriously though, it should be obvious that this is a technology that can be misused as well. To really accomplish collision avoidance, you would have to have data from angles that the car may not have sensors for. I'm talking about GPS or other possible solutions that may be questionable. Are we going to end up with marketing companies generating ads for you as a driver based on places that you frequently visit? What is the real goal here?
There isn't enough money in just selling a software solution for something like this - there has to be something else - some other way of leveraging it. That is the component that scares me.