[Split Thread] Driverless Cars and Pilotless Planes

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Originally Posted by Joey McGee (Post 10551062) Quote: Originally Posted by uvar (Post 10551022) And considering we haven't got computer-driven ground vehicles licked yet This is 99.9% false.

No, it's 100% true. The Google car, for example? Not programmed to handle rain yet. It also can't tell the difference between a newspaper (an obstacle it can drive over) and a rock (an obstacle it needs to avoid).



But I do have an objection to uvar's post: robotic driving is a FAR more difficult problem than robotic flying. The reason this isn't intuitively obvious is that the stuff that makes robotic driving difficult (like recognizing what objects are, choosing paths, etc) is stuff our brains have evolved to do just walking around. It's actually quite complex, but we're wired for it and have years of constant practice before we even get behind the wheel for the first time. The stuff which makes flying a challenge for humans (and why you can't throw a random person in a cockpit and expect good results) all involves stuff we aren't specifically wire for and don't have to do in our natural environment, but it's computationally simple in comparison.

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