[wavegeek]

But I don't want to driving a vehicle on the same road I am on. Well, not exactly you but, you know, those idiots.

[tinybrotosaurus]

What is your opinion on the societal effects of this lack of trust? This default trust on computer systems undermine trust in other humans. How can we hope to live in a community we do not trust? Why would i take into consideration X opinion on foreign trade if this "computer" thing is likely to be less wrong?

[lifeplusplus]

That's like saying elevators should still have a person controlling it manually because computers would deteoriate societal trust

[tinybrotosaurus]

An elevator can be considered a purely mechanical, not-social thing. Traffic can have a social aspect to it, most of us do not really care and consider it too to be a not-social thing. My point was more about what happens when we take things with social aspects and start to think of them as purely "mechanical" things. At that point having a human do activity "X" will appear dumb, like having a human control an elevator today. Could we still call this future world a society, since there is nothing social about it? Essentially we will dehumanize everything, and to me it seems sad.

[Enginerrrd]

Have you been getting good customer service since they switched to dehumanized, automated systems?

[olivermarks]

I have no issue with driverless cars per se but I am extremely interested in retaining vehicles that are not connected and/or central controlled and are autonomous under my sole control.

Freedom of right to unsupervised movement is as important as free speech in a free society IMO

[dijonman2]

The computer is only as smart as the person who programmed it.

[natch]

Andrej is pretty smart. But that's moot because these systems are developing to the point where they are programming themselves, as he would tell you.