TEDx: Jim Barbaresso: Disruptive Transportation Tech
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More than 37,000 people die in road crashes each year in the US, according to the Association for Safe International Road Travel. Jim Barbaresso discusses disruptive transportation technologies and highlight how the Intelligent Transportation Systems industry is working toward developing technology that may eliminate this risk and save lives in his TEDxJacksonville talk, "Driverless Cars and Connected Infrastructure: The future?" MetroJacksonville is very proud to be a media sponsor of TEDxJacksonville. This great video of Jim Barbaresso is from TEDxJacksonville 2015!
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The primary questions in driverless or autonomous driving is who do the liabilities shift to?
What would the purpose of insurance be, if personal liability is removed?
Autonomous does not necessarily mean risk or accident free. As the truck who turned left in front of an autonomous, speedling Tesla while the driver watched Harry Potter found out. Or the Tesla in China that couldn't avoid an accident in progress while in autonomous mode and wrecked itself and killed the driver.
For the "system" to effectively take out the majority of the risk, it would have to remove personal decision making. And decision making that would be left would be restricted to the destination and nothing else.
While insurance companies think they like this as it removes random decisioning and variables in skill from interacting, it really takes away a huge profit center, which is centered on personal liability. Some will go as far as saying it impinges on liberty, because it could possible restrict your right to freely travel as you wish.
Besides, don't we really want a Star Trek like mode of travel, where I step into my personal transporter pad and have myself beamed to my destination?
Disruption only works if people can maintain a new capability without a perceived loss of value. Autonomous or directed driving tech will never reach maturity if they can't obey that premise.
Quote from: Murder_me_Rachel on August 12, 2016, 12:52:44 PM
/sorry, i really love MJ, but TEDx and their ilk are about the dumbest shit imaginable.
I have heard some really compelling material out of TED in general. But its a mixed bag, not all of the presenters are the best, so you have to kind of wade through it to find the good stuff. I have heard some good stuff in TED on both sides of the gun ownership argument. But thats a different subject.