Comments by "Charles Eye" (@TheCharleseye) on "Riding a Waymo self-driving taxi" video.

@briangodfrey5079 Microsoft and the ilk would disagree with you. There are current supercomputers. Your smartphone is not one of them. That was dumbed-down marketing spin used for the masses, so as not to have to explain how interconnected computing works (because it's boring and doesn't sound as cool).
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@tat3179 Way to miss the point entirely.
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@xjones2087 Truth. Add in the fact that with connected computing, the computer needs to stay connected and you have all manner of potentially bad circumstances in the more mountainous parts of the Country (not even taking into account the rest of the world). But hey, when people don't have to learn to drive any more, that will surely free up more space in their heads for creating lolcats videos and Facebook memes.
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A) Everything the government involves themselves in ends up costing taxpayers WAY more than it should. B) Our current street signs and lights are VERY simple to understand. My ten-year-old could likely pass the written exam. If a driverless car isn't capable of knowing the difference between a big, red octagon with the word STOP and a big, yellow triangle with the word YIELD, I definitely don't trust it to know the difference between a speed bump and a person. Or are we all supposed to start wearing clothes with big QR codes on them, to let the machines know to spare us? No. They can be either be adapted to the world as it is, or they can be scrapped as a pipe dream until such time as they're viable. We have no pressing need to expedite the inclusion of driverless cars. Especially considering that - if the government was going to do anything about the mortality rates - it would be sooo much easier and more affordable to just make it harder to get a driver's license and add a zero tolerance law for drunk driving (as in, get caught once and lose your license forever, nationally). They haven't and they won't. Why? Because they make a lot of money off of vehicle sales tax and registration. Those get reduced with less drivers and all but disappear in your driverless Utopia.
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@briangodfrey5079 By the amount of time it took for you to respond, I have to assume you're currently using one of said 80s supercomputers.
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