Self-driving cars can be fooled by fake signals

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80. My position on autonomous vehicles is pretty clear.

1. They are tested only in clement weather conditions. See "DARPA Grand Challenge" for results, which are increasingly improving, but sadly now ended.

2. Any practical implementation will undoubtedly require improvements to infrastructure to enable it. Such improvements are not even on the drawing board.

3. Any practical implementation will require cooperation of diverse industries who will benefit most from the technology. Good luck with the Teamsters.

4. Then, there's fucking winter, which seems to inflict a vast proportion of the USA for months and which has never, ever been an environment for an autonomous vehicle test.

So how can anybody credibly claim that this technology is the coming thing.

It may be. But not likely in my lifetime. People tend to over estimate short term advances, and under estimate long term ones. That is in our nature, I think.

I remain skeptical by looking at what data we have. And there's none that says we will have autonomous vehicles anytime soon. (I reserve that opinion to exclude rail, where the route and traffic is constrained.)