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Vulcan Mind-Meld, Brainjacking Your Driverless Car
Dr. Lance B. Eliot, AI Insider
Be ready to have you mind hijacked by what I am about to tell you.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, though, and so we should start the story at the beginning.
For the future of AI self-driving driveless cars, we want to ultimately have “true” self-driving cars. By this use of the word “true,” I am referring to the notion that a true self-driving car is one that can entirely drive the car by itself, and does not need any human intervention during the driving task. This is considered a Level 5 self-driving car.
The AI of the car is able to deal with any driving situation, and be able to respond in the same manner that a human driver could respond. There is no need to have a human driver in the self-driving car, and instead all the humans in the self-driving car are merely considered as occupants or passengers. Even if there is a human driver that so happens to be in the self-driving car, their ability to drive is unrelated to the driving of that self-driving car.
Can we make that jump from the levels less than a Level 5 to reach a true Level 5? Maybe. Maybe not.
No one really knows.
I realize that there are daily predictions of when we will see a Level 5 self-driving car, but…
