Sei impressioni sulla macchina che si guida da sola di Google

Matthew Inman (aka The Oatmeal) ha avuto l’opportunità di provare la macchina che si guida da sola di Google in anteprima. La ha trovata molto timida e prudente. Ha raccolte le sue impressioni, divise in sei punti, sul suo blog. Questo è l’ultimo:

The unfortunate part of something this transformative is the inevitable, ardent stupidity which is going to erupt from the general public. Even if in a few years self-driving cars are proven to be ten times safer than human-operated cars, all it’s going to take is one tragic accident and the public is going to lose their minds. There will be outrage. There will be politicizing. There will be hashtags.
It’s going to suck.

But I say to hell with the public. Let them spend their waking lives putt-putting around on a crowded interstate with all the other half-lucid orangutans on their cell phones.

I say look at the bigger picture. All the self-driving cars currently on the road learn from one another, and each car now collectively possesses 40 years of driving experience. And this technology is still in its infancy.