George Hotz: Self-Driving Cars Are a Scam
&gt; Fatal accidents are largely caused by reckless behavior — speeding, drunks, texters, and people who fall asleep at the wheel.<p>This is just not really true. Every research on this suggest the opposite.<p>Of course if you blame everything on driver being bad misses the point. The road system AS DESIGNED encourages and intensities bad behavior and speeding.<p>Its the design of the road system that leads to fatalities. Ok, sure somebody that texts is more likely to be in an accident, but if that car is going 60mph then the chance of a fatality is far higher then if the care is going 20mph.<p>To ever solve anything, people need to stop blaming &#x27;reckless behavior&#x27; when people have to drive on fast moving strodes (8-lane roads) with lots of car merging in form the side.<p>Ironically the horrible street design in the US also makes the whole self driving thing far harder. When I as a Swiss person look at videos of Tesla driving around the US I am constantly shocked about the horrible condition and absurd roads and highways they have to drive on.<p>Merging into 8 lane roads with a green belt in the middle, you have to merge in from a stop sign. That&#x27;s crazy, in my whole country there isn&#x27;t a single 8 lane road.<p>If Tesla (and friends) had spend all of its time optimizing for the Netherlands or Finland they would be much better off. Cars simply drive slower, roads built smarter, and the signals and lines are better.<p>&gt; With V2X technology, a car whose sensors or cameras detect a pothole in the roadway will be able to notify their drivers, giving them time to take evasive maneuvers.<p>Yeah lets come up with the most complex solution ever, relay on terrible backwards car makers to implement that. Just so we can never slow down cars for any reason.<p>Making cars slower is what makes things safer, its really not that fucking hard and the best thing is, we can do it with technology we have today.<p>&gt; How simple would it be to have a system that immobilizes a car unless a licensed driver is at the wheel?<p>Lets introduce Stalism so we don&#x27;t have to slow down cars.<p>&gt; There are so many ways driving can be made safer and it doesn’t require massive investments or hugely expensive options to make safe driving a reality.<p>Yeah massive complex software systems with complex hardware for every participant implemented by many standards groups is defiantly the way to achieve a cheap solution.<p>This is why basically nobody dies on the road in Finland. People there all have government issued chip in their brain that explodes if you go over the speed limit.<p>Its absolutely baffling at what incredibly low level of argument we are having. Like seriously, how about we look at the places that have done a good job at reducing the amount of people dying?