I do not trust any “automated” system to function without error. Things run down. Entropy rules. Who will remedy situations when things go awry? Not the drivers. Maybe the fleet owner?
Coders are no longer artists, but hacks who spew inelegant software that is not at all tight or secure. Dark hats are breaking into banks, movie studios, mobile phones, and much more. How will a car be more secure? Maybe not by having computers onboard? Go back to mechanical diesels? clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1986 SDL - Polei 1982 300 SD - Allen retired models- 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored crap 1976 300D - Blei Vanst - it looks silvery 1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers > On May 31, 2018, at 9:17 AM, Ed Booher via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > It actually isn't the autonomous software that worries me, they *will* > perfect that. They *will* get the software to a point that it will *never* > have a crash, or kill a pedestrian for any reason. *That* is the part that > worries me. > > I watched a lot of anime in the 90s, I could have sworn it was Ghost in the > Shell that scared me so bad. However, I haven't been able to re-find the > scene in question, so it must have been another Japanese animated feature. > > Where in, they had *perfected* autonomous auto driving software, and the > entire world trusted it because no one drove their own car anymore. Then, > someone is able to crack the software of a driving car and send it off a > cliff. What are we going to do when our great-grandchildren inherently > trust artificial intelligence and think granddad is being stupid for > keeping the 66 fintail with manual drive in the garage and a virus starts > killing us because we have given over so much control to our automatons? > > That movie was *terrifying* to me. > > Edd > > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 7:21 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> On 30/05/2018 4:27 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote: >> >>> Autopilot Does_not_work. >>> >>> I had my yearly physicians appointment today and we were discussing >>> different things. One thing that came up is a young physician that recently >>> died in a single car auto accident. He was showing off his new >>> Infinity with Pro pilot or some such autonomous driving feature to my >>> doctor. He remarked to my doctor he could probably sleep while it did the >>> driving. >>> >>> I suspect that sentiment cost him his life. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
