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      8 months ago

      How Can Our Eyes Be Real And Cameras Not Be Sufficient For Autonomous Driving

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        8 months ago

        It’s just… incredibly dumb. Because the problem is not the optics. The problem is making a control system that more or less replicates a “normal” human response pattern, but then got regulated and litigated to hell and back, plus some helpful navigation suggestions based on correlation of user location data to advertising partners in partner-defined geographic and social media and demographic targeting nets, plus the fucking legion of weird edge case bugs that have probably crept in at some point in the process.

        At the same time, every once in a while, one should pause and consider how important it is to always look on the bright side of life