How many sensors for autonomous driving?
Autonomous flying seems like a much easier and more cost effective problem to solve, given there are orders of magnitude fewer contexts and obstacles.<p>The smarter problem would be changing the controls&#x2F;UX for cars to be more like a hoverboard or balance&#x2F;attention and gesture based than twisting a wheel around, abstracting that to remote telemetry, and <i>then</i> work on using ML to replacing that remote driver.<p>Autonomous vehicle companies have picked the unsolvable moonshot problem instead of improving the controls UX of driving to where it provides greater leverage to human ability. Make the driving experience more like a motorcycle, which is an extension of your body, instead of a mediated service where driving is reduced to a transaction. Self driving cars is the perfect example of sprawling corporate groupthink, where someone has a poorly formed idea and everyone aligns around managing a response to it instead of asking whether it&#x27;s the right problem to solve. For example, I think the Apple version of a car wouldn&#x27;t be self driving, it would be one that feels like it&#x27;s controlled by thought.<p>Maybe that&#x27;s Musk&#x27;s Neuralink play, and self driving was a distraction to set all auto industry competitors on a goose chase. If he&#x27;s not that strategic, it could at least provide an out, where a gesture controlled Tesla would outperform.