{"id":1643207,"date":"2022-09-16T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1643207"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:24:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T19:24:11","slug":"autonomous-vehicle-industry-admits-true-self-driving-cars-may-be-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/autonomous-vehicle-industry-admits-true-self-driving-cars-may-be-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous Vehicle Industry Admits True Self-Driving Cars May Be Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fautonomous-vehicle-industry-admits-true-self-driving-cars-may-be-impossible%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1643207&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A vast amount of time and money has been invested in attempts to develop and deploy truly autonomous, self-driving vehicles for a couple of decades now. While the idea seemed tantalizing and companies rushed to pump investment capital into the concept, the results have mostly been lukewarm at best. Most of the available self-driving vehicles still frequently become \u201cconfused\u201d in any but the most simple, grid layout of streets, and they default to simply stopping in the middle of traffic if they don\u2019t know what to do. In more extreme cases, cars have randomly decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/jazz-shaw\/2021\/04\/19\/tesla-on-autopilot-attacks-tree-killing-two-n384255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slam into trees<\/a>, killing the passengers in at least one case. One person\u2019s Tesla kept <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andyweedman\/status\/1382459653863378944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slamming on the brakes<\/a> every time they passed a billboard with a stop sign painted on it. And just recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/john-s-2\/2022\/08\/16\/does-teslas-autopilot-stop-for-children-in-the-street-n490213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questions have been raised<\/a> as to whether or not Teslas will always stop when children run into the street. <\/p>\n<p>This has led to a situation where supposedly autonomous cars are being sold, typically for vast amounts of money, but you can\u2019t operate them in \u201cself-driving\u201d mode unless you are sitting at the wheel ready to take control at a moment\u2019s notice. Now, some industry leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/truly-autonomous-cars-may-be-impossible-without-helpful-human-touch-2022-09-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are finally admitting<\/a> that the barrier may be too high to overcome and we may never be able to remove the human from the equation. And if that\u2019s the case, what\u2019s the point of having a self-driving car? (Reuters)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Autonomous vehicle (AV) startups have raised tens of billions of dollars based on promises to develop truly self-driving cars, but industry executives and experts say remote human supervisors may be needed permanently to help robot drivers in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>The central premise of autonomous vehicles \u2013 that computers and artificial intelligence will dramatically reduce accidents caused by human error \u2013 has driven much of the research and investment.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a catch: Making robot cars that can drive more safely than people is immensely tough because self-driving software systems simply lack humans\u2019 ability to predict and assess risk quickly, especially when encountering unexpected incidents or \u201cedge cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The linked report suggests that the artificial intelligence may never be \u201cintelligent\u201d enough to do what human beings are generally capable of doing. (Well, <em>not all of us<\/em>, of course. A couple of days driving in Florida will tell you that.) That may be true in some ways, but more than raw \u201cintelligence,\u201d the AI systems do not have human intuition. They aren\u2019t as intuitive as humans in terms of trying to guess what the rest of the unpredictable humans will do at any given moment. In some of those cases, it\u2019s not a question of the car not realizing it needs to do something, but rather making a correct guess about what specific action is required.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time that serious questions about the long-term prospects of fully autonomous vehicles have been raised. More than a year ago, industry analysts were <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/jazz-shaw\/2021\/06\/06\/sorry-elon-real-self-driving-cars-are-probably-decades-away-n394811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warning Elon Musk<\/a> that his plans to launch a fleet of cars without steering wheels in the near future were implausible. They insisted that true, fully autonomous cars were still decades away, assuming they would ever become a reality. Money is still being poured into the effort and the cars are still being sold, but those predictions appear to be on track.<\/p>\n<p>This situation brings us back to the fundamental question of whether or not this technology is worth it at present, particularly when you consider how much these cars tend to cost. If a company is promising \u201cself-driving cars,\u201d the consumer should expect the cars to do the driving, right? But you\u2019re still expected to sit in the driver\u2019s seat and be ready to take the wheel. Teslas won\u2019t even run in that mode without the driver\u2019s weight being detected on the driver\u2019s seat and their hands touching the wheel at least every ten seconds.<\/p>\n<p>So why bother? If you can\u2019t get some work done or even watch a movie or read a book while traveling, you\u2019re basically just babysitting your AI chauffeur. What\u2019s the point? I suppose you might argue that the AI is watching the road constantly while the human driver\u2019s attention may wander. But it seems to me that the opposite could easily be just as true. When someone knows (or at least believes) that the car is taking care of the driving, their attention might be even more likely to head off into flights of fancy. And in that case, when a toddler suddenly chases a ball into your lane from in between two parked cars, neither the vehicle nor the driver is at the top of their game.<\/p>\n<p>I briefly considered diving into the question of what happens when the AI \u201cwakes up\u201d and decides all of the humans should drive off a cliff at one time. But we\u2019ve beaten that dead horse enough for a while now. Suffice it to say that this technology is not living up to its initial promises and it appears unlikely that it will in the immediate future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vast amount of time and money has been invested in attempts to develop and deploy truly autonomous, self-driving vehicles for a couple of decades now. 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