The Autopilot, Is It a Good Idea?

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i think humans can be predisposed to over trusting technology. We see young people, or younger people like you, trust the technologies waymore older people like me do. i'm concerned with what all other car manufactures are strained to call their technologies that are similar to tesl's autopilot. You know, we're almost moving back to the days where we had tail lights before we had taillights. Some of these models for hands-free cars can have all this incorrect mental automation.

Tesla and other automakers have convinced the public that fully automated vehicles are just around the corner. But what if … they aren’t? Dr. Missy Cummings, AI researcher and director of the Humans and Autonomy Laboratory at Duke, joins Adam to detail the massive gap between Silicon Valley's promises and the technology’s limitations, and explain the real benefits that might come when we use AI to enhance human capability rather than replace us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.