NVIDIA's DRIVE Platform to Power Volvo's Driverless Trucks
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fantaskarsef
... until they're going to be replaced. 😀
Backstabak
Well, these trucks would still require a person to deliver the goods or collect that trash, so I don't really see that massive improvement that it is supposed to bring. Maybe areas such as e.g. agriculture, where a tractor can just go by itself on a predefined field is both much more useful and easier to implement.
Otherwise, I'd prefer to keep the self driving anything as much off the road as possible. The big issue I see is not really the AI, but the implementation. The computer requires a lot of sensor data, but a big problem is that the design of the car is on the first place, so e.g. an unseemly antenna will never pass to production, even if it perfectly fits the purpose. Instead, things that often barely, but look good, are produced.
asturur
Well even if they can just assist a tired driver, that would not be bad.
Dribble
schmidtbag
Petr V
Better put some driver in dat track.
gUNN1993
Groovy-Music
I hope all of you guys are fine with the idea of millions of people losing their jobs/income and becoming obsolete, only to be starving until they no longer exist... Are we supposing that all those drivers are gonna **super easily/instantly** find other opportunities in a 21st century advanced technological society?
What about other groups of workers that provide goods and services that depend on middle class income workers as customers? Think about gas stations, restaurants, mechanics, car washes, car shops, hotels and pretty much any retail stores anywhere really. Oh riiight... They're all gonna rapidly find opportunities in advanced technologies, right?
Everybody is gonna learn to code, right? Everybody is capable of doing complex and abstract mathematics, right? There's probably a market need for everybody to be coding, right?
In addition to the eradication of middle class workers which brings famine to most of the population, autonomous vehicles represent the loss of freedom of movement. Only the very privileged with a high enough social credit score will perhaps be granted a ride, and only if the technocrat controllers consider you and your destination acceptable... only if you make enough virtual ca$h from coding... Gone is the time when people can freely travel somewhere without asking digital permission. Now, you'll need to be granted permission in order to pay-by-the-mile through a big brother phone app.
But yeah, no big deal. Nothing dramatic right?
Here's a quote << Autonomous trucks could potentially operate 24 hours a day, improving delivery times, and with increased efficiency, can bring down the annual cost of logistics in the U.S. by 45% — between $85 billion and $125 billion, according to experts... >
Who is gonna have any income left to buy all those discounted goods? Oh yeah, the coders!
Here is a typical comment I've come across for years by people who I would assume have no personal vehicles, and certainly do not intend to remain in charge of their lives:
<< I see so many bad drivers on the road that I wouldn't mind the AI replacing them all! >>
I.E. I don't appreciate my neighbors driving their cars, but I much approve of Google Alphabet, Amazon, and Nvidia corporations driving humanity.
Well, freedom always has a cost.
With such a narrow mentally, one could wish for a comparable outcome for almost anything, such as: I've seen so many people cook badly that I wouldn't mind Big AI Corporations to be the only ones cooking.
Bottom line: Big Corporations are getting in control of everything in our lives and removing all our means and astoundingly, many persons are blindly favoring it.
schmidtbag
Venix
I see em as a good thing my cousin was working on trucks doing deliveries all over Europe. The schedules where brutal and he over worked , the resault was him falling asleep on the wheel and the track with the trailer behind making rolls he came out with just bruises but sadly a very unfortunate man got hit by the cargo trailer and got killed on the spot , i am all in for automated tracks.
fantaskarsef
H83