Useful Offshoots of AI Self-Driving Car Breakthroughs

Dr. Lance B. Eliot, AI Insider

Offshoots and spin-offs are emerging via AI self-driving car efforts

What did we get by landing on the moon? Smarmy answers are that we got Tang, the oh-so-delicious artificially flavored orange drink mix, and we brought back to earth about 50 pounds of rocks and dirt in the Apollo 11 mission alone.

Seriously, it is hard to imagine that anyone really would though claim that the only benefits from the moon landing consisted of a drink mix and some rocks. The world was focused on something truly inspirational.

You’d be relatively safe to argue too that the moon effort spurred advances in electronics and in computing. Galvanizing attention on an overall goal that forced along the movement of electronics and computers seems likely to have sparked and pushed forward those offshoots and spin-offs more so than if they were merely acting on everyday economic pursuits.

I don’t think we have a time machine that would allow us to somehow replay the era and pretend that there was an alternative of not going for the moon, and then see how things fared.

The overarching theme is that sometimes when you are doing one thing, there can be various offshoots and spin-offs, offering a twofer,

Let’s shift our attention right now to another kind of moonshot, namely the efforts to…