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Japan rivals Nissan and Honda will share EV components and AI research as they play catch up (techxplore.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know about your city, but I trust technology a lot more than the average driver.

I don't. Technology can be subject to glitches, bugs, hacking, deciding to plow right through pedestrians (hello Tesla!), etc.

While the case can be made that human drivers are worse at reaction time and paying attention, at least a "dumb" car can't be hacked, won't be driven off the road due to a bug, won't try to knock people over itself without stopping, etc.

A human, when they catch these things happening, can correct them (even if it is caused by them). But if a computer develops a fatal fault like that, or is hijacked, it cannot.

EDIT: It seems like this community is full of AI techbro yes-men. Any criticism or critical analysis of their ideas seems to be met with downvotes, but I've yet to get a reply justifying how what I said is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Plenty of dumb cars get recalls all the time for shitty parts or design. Remember that Prius with the brakes that would just decide to stop working?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Self-driving cars are no less prone to mechanical failures.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but you said that already

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

No, I was talking about software issues.

And if you know that both non-self-driving cars and self-driving cars are both equally prone to mechanical issues, why bring it up as a counterpoint?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It wasn't a counterpoint you silly goose, I was agreeing with you