March 18, 2015 at 12:17Elon Musk: people will not be allowed to drive cars
Tesla co-founder and CEO Ilon Musk believes that human-driven cars will ultimately be illegal - they will be replaced by robotic brothers. Just unmanned vehicles will be better at managing.
“Cars will become a kind of elevator. Once the operators controlled the elevator, and then people created a simple scheme that allows the elevator to automatically stop on the desired floor, ” Musk said . Now there are two billion cars on the planet. It takes twenty years to transfer them to autonomous control.
Tesla has already added some options for autonomous control in their cars: Model S independently adjusts the speed, slows down and helps to keep the row, using the built-in sensors. The next step will be to combine navigation options with autopilot for the highway.
The most difficult part of creating autopilots is the development of driving a car at a speed of 24 to 80 kilometers per hour. It is in this mode that the car meets the most unpredictable obstacles: playing children, cyclists, open hatches. These are factors that the robot may not respond to properly - including the lack of reaction.
But at the same time, you need not only to improve sensors and computers: you need to make sure that no one can break into the car. Musk said that he attracted companies from the outside so that they tried to hack Tesla. One way to deal with security issues is to frequently update software.
In November, Elon Musk said that artificial intelligence is dangerous to humanity . But in the case of cars, he believes that we have nothing to fear - after all, we are talking about a highly specialized kind of AI.
“Cars will become a kind of elevator. Once the operators controlled the elevator, and then people created a simple scheme that allows the elevator to automatically stop on the desired floor, ” Musk said . Now there are two billion cars on the planet. It takes twenty years to transfer them to autonomous control.
Tesla has already added some options for autonomous control in their cars: Model S independently adjusts the speed, slows down and helps to keep the row, using the built-in sensors. The next step will be to combine navigation options with autopilot for the highway.
The most difficult part of creating autopilots is the development of driving a car at a speed of 24 to 80 kilometers per hour. It is in this mode that the car meets the most unpredictable obstacles: playing children, cyclists, open hatches. These are factors that the robot may not respond to properly - including the lack of reaction.
But at the same time, you need not only to improve sensors and computers: you need to make sure that no one can break into the car. Musk said that he attracted companies from the outside so that they tried to hack Tesla. One way to deal with security issues is to frequently update software.
In November, Elon Musk said that artificial intelligence is dangerous to humanity . But in the case of cars, he believes that we have nothing to fear - after all, we are talking about a highly specialized kind of AI.
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