Google: A Rose by Any Other Name Could Be Fully Autonomous

January 7, 2021

I spotted an interesting article called “Waymo Shelves Self Diving Term for Its Technology to Shore Up Safety.” The write up explains:

Waymo will call its technology “fully autonomous” to create, what it believes, is an important distinction. The company’s argument rests entirely on how the public perceives “self-driving” as a term.

As Google tries to solve the “problem” or respond to the “opportunity” for vehicles in which humans can play with their mobile devices instead of driving is bigly. I want to point out that Google and the others pitching this nirvana for motorists and advertisers have not solved some of the tricky issues. Crashing a car due to road markers? Mistaking a small dog as a puddle? These are not “problems”; they are outliers. Black sheep get hit by smart software too.

The fix is not the lingo. The fix is to begin to change the roadways to make the “opportunity” less fraught. How’s Google doing solving death and handling its labor “opportunity”? Yeah. Quantum supremacy too.

Stephen E Arnold, January 7, 2021

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