self-driving cars
also referred to as: self-driving car
4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 10, 2021 by Yann LeCun · across every show →
Everything said about self-driving cars, oldest first
Dec 10, 2021 bearish
LeCun: Reinforcement learning cannot safely or efficiently train self-driving cars
“If we were to use, let's say, reinforcement learning to train a self-driving car to drive itself,
It would have to drive itself for millions of hours and cause, you know, until thousands of accidents and destroy itself multiple times before it learns to drive …”
Jul 17, 2024 bullish
Siemiatkowski predicts 10-year-olds won't need driver's licenses due to autonomous vehicles
“I personally believe that self-driving cars at some point in time will happen, but I don't know when my bet is my daughter is now 10, and I have always said, I don't think she's going to get a driver's license, but that's eight years out, right?”
Aug 7, 2024
Bostrom: Harms of tech inaction are invisible compared to visible immediate harms
“It's harder to sometimes see the cost of limiting ourselves in all those ways, because the new innovations that would be unlocked are not yet there. Whereas like the pollution is, is there immediately, right? Or the person, like if a self-driving car runs over…”
Jan 16, 2026 bearish
Mensch: In-home humanoid robots will face long timelines like autonomous vehicles
“And so the same way we've been waiting for self-driving car for the last 15 years, we'll be probably waiting for like humanoid robotics in house for meaningful time. And before that, what we'll see is at scale deployment in manufacturing.”