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Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere::The dream of these vehicles ruling the roads remains just that. Focusing on public transport would be much smarter, says transport writer Christian Wolmar

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

“ Artificial intelligence is a fancy name for the much less sexy-sounding “machine learning” “

This article is just a plug for this guys book and if the quote above from the article is anything to go by then I doubt the book will be anything more than a poorly researched 300 page opinion piece.

[–] Moneo 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah I'm mega anti-car and not at all optimistic about self-driving but this article says very little of substance.