If AI is going to get good at driving cars, flying planes, and long-haul trucking, it will have to learn to go around a set track quickly and to pass other vehicles. This video proves that fleets of utopian AI cars making our streets safer, instantly causing traffic problems to disappear, and returning so much real estate wasted on parking, fueling, and maintaining vehicles that even housing becomes plentiful is not coming soon.
World’s first AI auto race (video) – Boing Boing
If we must have autonomous vehicles, at the very least they should be separated from the normal flow of human-operated cars, and normal pedestrians. But if we’re going to have specialized, separated lanes, we’d be better off giving them to buses with human drivers anyway.
The insistence by Cruize and Waymo on pushing autonomous cars into the worst possible environment for them is a classic case of trying to run before learning to walk. And when you see the performance of autonomous vehicles given the run of an ideal environment, you can’t help but wonder if this technology even could be perfected. Yes, the designers and engineers only had two months to prepare, but we are well past the point where you have to start from scratch to build bespoke solutions for autonomous vehicles.