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has a failure the other cars should know to get out of the way because let's say they're tracking that car and it goes offline and they know it shouldn't have. The other cars should adjust. Let's say one of them has a mechanical problem. Perhaps another car could sense it, come up behind him. All the cars behind him in that lane would slow down automatically and the back car would push the other c…
← Previous segment →s a good idea and figure out a way to build test roads in Detroit that could start small. Maybe it's just a few roads and then they build them as they go. Maybe you need to do some tunneling to get around the existing structures so you bring in the Boring Company. You bring in Elon Musk's Boring technology that makes tunnels cost-effectively for just those places you need to get around something or under or over it.
Scott the self-driving idea is a farce. Well you left out all the reasons I would say that self-driving cars are a guarantee. There's no chance that it won't happen. So whatever you're calling a farce I would certainly be on the opposite end of that opinion. Yes and bringing this level of industry in would create a whole range of jobs from the high-end engineers to the laborer level because you'd still need to repair a lot of cars. You'd need to build a lot of roads. So it would be a massive infrastructure or transportation jobs program and at the end of it you would have this vibrant Motor City Detroit again. So I just throw that out there as an idea.
All right. Natural language processing it isn't even there yet. I don't know what that is. Do anything. Yeah self-driving cars are all over Mountain View for example so Mountain View is testing and we'd still need to test the self-driving cars in places where it's going to be integrated with other cars. So somebody just was putting my own words back to me to say don't say whether it's a good idea or a bad idea say whether you can test it as small and testing as small is essentially what I'm suggesting. So you could test as small simply by having a limited highway within Detroit and then just build it as it makes sense to build it. So yes by its nature it could be tested small.
Should the car protect the driver or pedestrian? I think a lot of that problem goes away with self-driving cars because one of the things you could do with a self-driving car highway is to make pedestrian traffic non-existent. So for example if you're going to build a self-driving car only highway you might make sure that you have pedestrian tunnels under all of them or crossways over them and you just get rid of the pedestrian question altogether.
They don't work in snow. Well that's what you'd be testing. So self-driving cars will be a choice for the foreseeable future. Yes I think self-driving cars will be a choice in the same way that owning a smartphone will be a choice. It'll seem like a choice early on but eventually it would be just the only way people do things because it would be so much better. There's no way that human-driven cars will be able to compete in the long run.
All right just looking here comments. Human interface is always the bug in the system. Yeah the worst component of your car at the moment is you. The car, every part of the car works well except the human. The human is all the errors. Ninety-eight percent of the accidents probably, I'm guessing. Wouldn't you guess that ninety-eight percent of traffic accidents are caused by humans? Maybe ninety-fiv
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e, something like that. All right that's all for now. I'll talk to you all later.
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