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Discussion on: Is it Ethical to Work on the Tesla Autopilot Software?

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Eljay-Adobe

The self-driving car? I think it will take significantly longer to develop that technology than their estimates. I liken it to John McCarthy's prediction on how easy the AI problem will be to solve; or how we're merely 10 years away from sustainable fusion energy (and have been for, oh, about 7 decades now). I expect that there will delay after delay after delay, for a long time.

Their production quotas falling far short of their promises? That will erode stockholder confidence, which will impact their market cap.

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Blaine Osepchuk

Both, I suppose.

I agree that the estimates will keep slipping. When I started thinking about writing this post, I started imagining the kind of ML/AI you would need to deal with the uncommon things I've experienced in my driving career. And the more scenarios I recalled/imagined, the more difficult the requirements for the car became.

So I think it's going to be something like the first 99% will take 5% of the effort. And the last 1% will take the other 95%.