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Message: [QUOTE="Exorcet, post: 12057925, member: 117913"] Is that really all that different from a human driver though? Humans have fallible sensors for sure. I'll give you that we're better at understanding each other than AI for now, but far from perfect at it. Painted lanes don't necessarily help humans anyway. I know that I've seen a fair number of drivers ignore lanes, not to mention lights, stop signs, and turn signals. There might be a few areas where humans have advantages, but the bottom line is the accident rate. You can't know ahead of time when you're going to end up in a bad situation. If you could know, you would just avoid the problem. The only rational way to lower your chance of harm is to take the statically favorable option. Eliminating human error and replacing it with less likely machine error could achieve that. Technically we didn't evolve to drive. We're going much faster than evolution shaped us for and we're not in direct control of anything (we operate the car through the wheel and pedals, etc). The machine in this article is doing a fair job despite not being around nearly as long as we have. Computer have also bested us at complex tasks despite being "braindead". Chess would be one classic example. You have to remember that we're machines too. Our brains run calculations and is not too far off from an AI's processor conceptually. If intelligence is just an emergent property then it won't be exclusive to humans forever. [/QUOTE]