Re: Huh ? "Researchers" Debate "Automatic" Driving -vs- "Robot" Driving

 > 26xh.0717 wrote:
 >
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-06-robot-driver-seat-automating-car.html
 >
 > Researchers wonder what if you just put a robot in the driver's
 > seat instead of automating the car?
 >
 > .. . .
 >
 >    Ummmmm ... too many "researchers" getting paid ???
 >
 >    Does not MATTER if the car is driven by something
 >    outwardly humanoid OR by a box under the hood -
 >    the RESULT is the SAME ... 'automated driving'.
 >    Same sensors/algos.
 >
 >    Now naive consumers may THINK something that
 >    "looks like them" will somehow be a better
 >    driver - but that's just ad hype.
 >
 >    What was the "MIB" movie with the inflatable
 >    automatic car driver ? "Used to be black but
 >    they kept getting pulled over"  :-) Even in
 >    that case, the neoprene 'driver' was really
 >    just a box under the hood.
 >
 >    For the record, "automated" driving systems
 >    are STILL "not ready for prime time". They
 >    fall well BEHIND humans in "understanding"
 >    the whole road situation. They are NOT safe.
 >    Maybe 20 years or so ???
 >
 >    A *pity* really - I'd HOPED for better. With
 >    the large "boomer" gen now reaching old age,
 >    completely reliable auto-driving would be
 >    a HUGE boon. Just step in the Johnny Cab and ...
 >
 >    But, turns out, "driving" is VERY VERY COMPLICATED.
 >    Even the best "AI" is only so-so ..... and that
 >    means LIABILITY issues.

If the robot driver could operate
a vehicle from the 1970's then yes. Otherwise no. Self-driving cars
seems a lot more efficient the fact
A. You could be a sleep in the car, while it is in motion.
B. You could have more passengers.
C. Now you have not one but two devices to deal with.

Upon C. The robot could win because you could buy a brand new car with
no electronics and the
robot literally would be the only electronics to actually use.

However

A battery operated car where electronics are presented. Might as well
make it self-driving.
Unless those electronics are more or less like a regular car, then we
could go robo.

If we could make battery-cars that takes store brought batteries (
like take those Rechargable D
Batteries within an array ) . Then yes these could be easy to service
rather then a big-chunky battery
 

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