Believe me, I understand that dedicated roadways would become a huge, ridiculous rat's nest of red tape, and pork barrel money pits.
And probably a Robert Moses character might emerge and cause just as many problems re-engineering roadways in broad, callous strokes.
But there's a huge ugly blind spot we're going to unleash upon the world with cars that decide what happens and when, all on their own.
People don't even like when the cops know how many emails are filled with retarded emojis on their phones. People go batshit insane about full disk encryption.
You're all mad if you think this car business going to work out in your favor.
We need time to mature this technology. Household home-ec bots are a safe start to a bold plan.
Autonomy is an ambitious project. Large heavy machinery is an unnecessarily risky entry into an immature field.
Building reliable technology in a mild environment will permit the opportunity to prove trusted patterns of operation, under the safest conditions. People will be able to gain a feel for normal dispositions of autonomous motile devices, and build good collective practices for safe operating environments.
Corporations should not be trusted as accountanle entities. Volkwagen's deceptive green emissions scandal shows how far a sub-department will go, to meet the bottom line.
Competitive business practices in a hazardous and unforgiving operating environment are not what we want birthing this sort of technology.
I'm not going to dodge the premise of your quandary, which is that accountability and responsibility are necessary components of a civilized society, and that idealizing anonymity also introduces problems and is prone to abuse.
Your example is disconnected from this premise though, for other reasons. Even with air-tight biometrics, determining the exact identity of which twin crossed the border, the police would still have their hands tied.
Biometrics would not solve a hit-and-run manslaughter, simply because the level of surveillance necessary to prove the identity of every passenger in every driver's seat at all times would amount to oppressive totalitarianism.
In reality, a rental car provided to a vactioning traveller could have been stolen for a joy ride, and possibly returned before the renter noticed it was gone. The police would need a stroke of luck, in the form of some video footage or a witness further corroborating the identity of the driver at the time of the incident. A border crossing, and a rental agreement wouldn't confirm the criminal, even if a jury might convict on that basis alone.
Anyway, back to accountability. There's a fine line painted at the boundary of the statement: Those who have nothing to hide, have nothing to fear.
It's always going to come down to the constituents of a given society, to determine the level of discipline required to participate with adjacent members. An individual's neighbors will determine how volatile their environment is. A permissive environment may attract those rejected from other regions. A fortress may sterilize all behavior. Everyone should be able to choose their own peers, according to preference, but what if one finds themselves chosen for the purpose of exploitation? There's no easy answer to this situation. Complex systems require defense mechanisms to persist and withstand chaos. My point, though, is that people should understand which side of the defense mechanism their on, and whether they are participating deferes, or regarded as the defended, or perhaps if they are the repelled chaos.
I wish people would just give up on this self-driving car business for now.
We don't even want autonomous robots in our house, pitter pattering about like toddlers, at 3 miles an hour. We don't even trust our smart TV sets.
So let's make 2 ton versions, and throw them into a frying pan with people? Yeah, great idea. I bet they'll act just like TCP packets. Good job.
Why not segregated roadways? If we're so desperate to automate trucking and shipping, how about big, thick K-rails, and dedicated roadway?
We all know that early adopters suffer the growing pains of buggy first versions. No reason for all of society to share this burden when It hasn't even been put to a vote.
Keep these things the hell away from ordinary people, and their kids for at least another 50 years.
It's still an important component of human-oriented societies, to permit the individual to inform you of who they claim to be.
You rob individuals of agency, when you start dictating to them who you've declared them to be.
If two identical twins appear becore you, wearing sunglasses and gloves, are you going to demand that they remove their accessories, so that your special machine can declare them honest?
Sounds like an alienating place. How far will this go, once a person crosses the threshold, and steps into such a zone of absolute identity? Smart people might wish to stay the hell away from such a place.
Smart people might prefer a place that permits them the dignity of producing an artifact from their pockets, rather than acquiescing to a medical inspection.
I wonder, in the final days and hours, what the amount of impact individual seconds have on a given image.
Do the sensors record the full stream of data, and then perform calculations to produce the exposure?
If so, how many bytes does one pixel-second occupy? How high is the dynamic range for x-rays? Figure maybe a sensor can operate like a high-speed camera, and record many hundreds of frames per second?
Turing tarpits aside, people speak very highly of C, just as they may do the same for assembly, but depending on context.
Languages fill a niche, and outside of their area of utility it's easy to notice weaknesses.
But arguments in favor of functions are similar to those in favor of objects. They both joust for the award of being adept at doing more with less code, in terms of mythical-man-month project scalability.
I've experienced that problem with huge OOP code trees, and I still don't foresee Pure Functional programming supplying a cure for that problem. Maybe I'm just not one of the lucky ones yet. I don't know.
But when I read Pure Functional code, even though it's tighter, with less boiler plate, it doesn't feel like honest improvement. It's like Coke or Pepsi, McDonalds or Burger King.
OOP might yeild thousands of source files and hundreds of lines per some files, but if a Pure Functional project does the same thing with fewer lines of code in fewer files, it's still doing the same thing.
So in a decade you'll probably find the same complaints, in the same places, but at least people will have different hair styles.
Talentless developers who fight and argue are the only real hazard in the world of programming.
Mature trends and languages have attracted decades of developers good and bad, and because they're widely used, they have the misfortune of also providing a home to the largest corpus of terrible code.
Mark my words: in a generation, functional programming will accumulate just as much garbage, inadequately programmed by just as many careless and/or passive-aggressive developers desperately clinging to their jobs throughout the next wave of whatever becomes the next Steve Ballmer stack ranking code review process.
It doesn't matter how many words or ideas you throw at this circumstance. Terrible developers will still manage to commit garbage.
A utility worker's laptop suffering an intrusion is something that should be investigated earlier, rather than later.
I'd rather hear about false alarms, early and often, since I'm not convinced that critical infrastructure is actually insulated from attack at all.
Electricity and water infrastructure is almost certainly in terrible shape, based on what we've learned about lead in Flint, Michigan and what's remembered about the 2003 blackout, and Enron.
Knowing this, and hearing not very much about what's being done to modernize essential utilities, I'd hate to find out that a massive accident was caused by someone's idea of modernization being a PHP web app prone to SQL injection running inside a docker image, as a rube goldberg facade wrapping a galaxy of SCADA controllers.
This is the kind of thing people should get noisy about, since there's been pretty much only silence and very little "disruption."
Involving hundreds of employees in the handling of millions of credit card transactions, regardless of however trivial the goods may seem, requires caution.
That's a big number, way too large for anyone to take personally in an emotional sense. But it's definitely big enough for a purge. Jailing, disappearances and more.
This is a pretty large economic tide. Almost twice the size of California's economy, all at once. Ranking it The Fifth Largest Economy, worldwide, if it's worth thinking in those terms.
Given that an approximate number of participating Chinese nationals have been enumerated, if they suddenly disappeared (and ~20,000 is certainly within the realm of possibility), what would a sudden halt of two trillion (legal or not) do to the rest of the world?
It's policy document regarding the company's Standard Operating Procedures for conducting post-mortems on "incidents," which is technical parlance for investigating SNAFU's, major and minor, and assigning blame if appropriate or necessary.
125th Street really, really needs some cross town service.
Something connecting all the way from Riverside Drive/Henry Hudson Parkway passing through the 125th Metro North Railroad station. (...and maybe even shuttling to Randals Island, why not?)
It's faster walking than it is to take the buses that run that route. Cold weather means waiting for the buses sucks, and the only time it's worth a trade is when you're carrying something heavy.
Car service in Harlem is slightly schizophrenic, even with car hailing apps and "boro cabs" (because normal yellow cabs don't operate in Harlem, for reasons I still don't understand...).
And probably a Robert Moses character might emerge and cause just as many problems re-engineering roadways in broad, callous strokes.
But there's a huge ugly blind spot we're going to unleash upon the world with cars that decide what happens and when, all on their own.
People don't even like when the cops know how many emails are filled with retarded emojis on their phones. People go batshit insane about full disk encryption.
You're all mad if you think this car business going to work out in your favor.