Technological Antisolutions
I disagree with this idea self-driving cars aren&#x27;t coming. Maybe later than expected, but they are.<p>I don&#x27;t see the &quot;pogo stick&quot; thing as an unsolvable issue. You don&#x27;t need to recognize every single weird thing that could show up on a road, you just need to have a way to deal with an unexpected obstacle showing up, and defaulting to gracefully braking.<p>If somebody decides to exploit this by randomly wandering into the road, they&#x27;ll do it in front of multiple cameras per car, which can be easily used to fine such people until it stops happening with any frequency.<p>For some reason the self-driving car discussion gets bogged down in things that don&#x27;t really need realistic consideration. Eg, the Trolley Problem. There&#x27;s no need for a car to make some sort of AI driven decision whether &quot;child&quot; or &quot;woman&quot; is the best thing to run over, when it can just detect a generic obstacle and brake.<p>The big problem right now is more that Tesla is trying to do it on the cheap and trying to do the job with too few sensors.