Driverless Cars
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Russell: Fully driverless cars are still decades away, not years
“Oh, oh, it will. It will. It's just like decades, you know, it's not like, you know, next year, you know, it's just there's a different kind of timescale for these things.”
Austin Russell predicts widespread deployment of driverless cars is decades away
“Oh, oh, it will. It's just, like, decades, you know, it's not, like, next year, you know?”
Lacey: Tens of billions invested in driverless cars by 2017
“At that point, venture investors, tech companies, and car makers had poured tens of billions of dollars into driverless cars.”
Marcus: No established methodology exists for debugging chatbots or autonomous vehicles
“None of these chatbot systems are well-debugged. Nobody knows how to debug them, in fact. And so both the problem with GPT-III and with driverless cars is we don't actually have a methodology even for debugging it.”
Levine: Computers have an easier time picking stocks than driving cars
“And like, to me, it's gotta be a lot easier to pick stocks than to drive a car for a computer.”
Smith: Technologies Like CRISPR And Driverless Cars Cannot Be Suppressed
“On this point, you can't stop technology. You can't suppress it. These things are coming. CRISPR is coming to design your baby someday. Driverless cars are coming.”
People will learn to trap autonomous vehicles with simple visual tricks
“Someone is going to find a way of hacking that driverless car. Within seconds. By which I mean, you know, they'll work out that by putting a particular pattern of balloons on the road, the driverless car basically starts just going around in ridiculous circles…”
Sutherland: Pedestrians will exploit driverless cars because they always yield without retaliating
“Now, if we take this in in the driverless car situation, we'll know that when we want to cross the road, we just walk out in front of a driverless car, because it's always going to stop. Now, this may cause the passengers in the driverless car to lurch around …”