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Why The Future Of Driverless Cars Is Not So Driverless
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For those of us holding out for a self-driving car: bad news. The future of cars is not the autonomous, smooth-driving, traffic-avoiding, anti-horn-blowing machine we had hoped for.
So says David Mindell, author of the new book "Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy." He argues humans will always be involved when it comes to robots because humans are better than people realize at correcting mistakes.
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David Mindell, author of "Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy," professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He tweets @DavidMindell.
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IEEE Spectrum: Q&A: Why Fully Autonomous Robot Cars Hail From The 20th Century
- "Full autonomy is an old idea. The real frontier is collaboration, which includes autonomy but different levels of autonomy at different moments under the control of a human operator. There is no natural kind of progress; it’s up to us to choose the kinds of progress we want to make in technology. I think this [collaborative] progress is both more productive and humane."
The Financial Times: Job For The Droids
- "This handover problem between machines and people is about to become a very real one for 'driverless' cars. In their first incarnation, these will not be entirely driverless: they will hold their lanes on freeways, edge along in slow-moving traffic and park themselves. But when driving conditions become more complex, they will need to hand back control to their flesh-and-blood chauffeurs."
This segment aired on October 29, 2015.