Episode 27: How could self-driving cars change the world? - Part 2
The Received Wisdom
Teaching a Computer to Drive
In 1987, Lucy Suchman published a hugely influential book called Plans and Situated Actions based on years of research at Xerox. This book challenged the idea that machines could be made to think like humans. Just as humans exist in a wider world that they have built to suit them, so machines need to have systems around them that help them do their jobs. What's the actual proposal for not only the engineering of the autonomous vehicle, but the re-engineering of the world that it's going to be operating in? And then the second question is what are the political economic vested interests in this proposal for our futures, right? Who benefits, who loses, what are the costs, what are
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