Laying a trap for self-driving cars
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Certainly entertaining though.
I enjoyed that 'smart car' joke that went "I was standing in the garage because I had forgotten where I had parked my self driving car, then it hit me."
Or maybe the artist is just a lazy anti-AI person and I am giving him too much credit. But I wouldn't say it's a foregone conclusion.
"Sometime in early March, a bulldozer specially equipped with both a GPS and a mobile satellite phone is sent up the mountain and over the Snow Canyon. The GPS and sat phone work in tandem to provide the driver a detailed video screen image of the dozer’s location in relation to the center of the snow-buried highway. This driver’s job is not to clear snow, but simply to lay out an accurate track of the road itself."
It reminds me a bit of the story about NASA and the gazillion dollar space pen, vs the soviet space agency and their pencils.
> When the solution of providing astronauts with a ballpoint pen that would work under weightless conditions and extreme temperatures came about, though, it wasn’t because NASA had thrown hundreds of thousands of dollars (inflated to $12 billion in the latest iterations of this tale) in research and development money at the problem. The “space pen” that has since become famous through its use by astronauts was developed independently by Paul C. Fisher of the Fisher Pen Co., who spent his own money on the project and, once he perfected his AG-7 “Anti-Gravity” Space Pen, offered it to NASA.
Pencils have issues with electrical systems, waste, and flammability.
Because a self-driving car wouldn't have any reason to drive into the circle, so it wouldn't get "caught".
The actual reason a regular car is used is because this is an "art installation" and not a serious critique of self-driving algorithms.
A more effective trap would be a "no entry" sign on a one-way street (or one side of a dual carriageway), positioned so the car can't see it before entering the street.
See the XKCD "Highway Engineer Pranks" for examples!
reminds me of rollercoaster tycoon where you could trap guests indefinitely by using that technique.
It's doubtful we'll let self-driving cars make that choice (and in fact, would likely be illegal under current laws which prohibit weapons from being automated).
The British government responded by making destroying mechanized looms a capital offense, and deploying the army against them.
An orwellian, neworked device with hundreds of sensors, cameras, laser scanners? Not so easy.
Maybe in the future it'll be impossible to get away with things like that in the future.
Truckers are very well organized, both officially via unions and informally via radio shows, newsletters, online forums, and the like.
Not that it will accomplish much, but it will be a lively transiton.
Like the mischief being mentioned against trucks and Uber's by drivers (we can almost guarantee this will happen), what about just strait up traps for robbery?
There were some cases of this with the Pokémon game right?