Waymo automous cars have driven over 1 million miles and Tesla over 1 billion miles and it still looks like they drive like my 15 year old kid, but let’s not let that get in the way of making money by collecting big data on the peole who would ride in automous vehicles. Being able to market products to passengers in automous vehicles is where the big money is at.
This video bring up an interesting question about autonomous cars. What happens when they come upon an accident scene where a police officer is directing traffic with hand signals? Can the AI in the cars detect hand signals and follow them? What if the direction is to drive out of the lane of traffic and onto the shoulder of the road?
Talk given at MIT in 2019 about the state of autonomous cars.
https://youtu.be/sRxaMDDMWQQ
Waymo automous cars have driven over 1 million miles and Tesla over 1 billion miles and it still looks like they drive like my 15 year old kid, but let’s not let that get in the way of making money by collecting big data on the peole who would ride in automous vehicles. Being able to market products to passengers in automous vehicles is where the big money is at.
This video bring up an interesting question about autonomous cars. What happens when they come upon an accident scene where a police officer is directing traffic with hand signals? Can the AI in the cars detect hand signals and follow them? What if the direction is to drive out of the lane of traffic and onto the shoulder of the road?In the video I posted there seems to be a broken car which the human drivers were negotiating quite reasonably, while the WayMo car just seems to keep moving forwards until it reaches the broken car, where the safety driver has to take action. I was amused when the journalist said that they never saw a WayMo car automatically take the left turn that leads to the WayMo depot.Talk given at MIT in 2019 about the state of autonomous cars.
https://youtu.be/sRxaMDDMWQQI watched the first 5 minutes of that video, but its more like a sales pitch than a serious university talk.
Well, the MIT will someday need more salesmen than professors to be able to keep running. So this is not surprising.
Waymo automous cars have driven over 1 million miles and Tesla over 1 billion miles and it still looks like they drive like my 15 year old kid, but let’s not let that get in the way of making money by collecting big data on the peole who would ride in automous vehicles. Being able to market products to passengers in automous vehicles is where the big money is at.
Waymo automous cars have driven over 1 million miles and Tesla over 1 billion miles and it still looks like they drive like my 15 year old kid, but let’s not let that get in the way of making money by collecting big data on the peole who would ride in automous vehicles. Being able to market products to passengers in automous vehicles is where the big money is at.Ads cost about $0.6/hour while driving cost about $20/hour. Ads cant pay for a ride, i.e. they are not doing it for the ads.
My felling too, but continue watching. At first I thought this might be a presentation at a symposium MIT was sponsoring. But then the guy keep saying there will be guest speakers in the class which makes me think this is an MIT university semester long class. But then why is he wearing a suit? None of my professors ever wore suits. But maybe professors wearing suits are an East Coast or MIT thing.
Ads cost about $0.6/hour while driving cost about $20/hour. Ads cant pay for a ride, i.e. they are not doing it for the ads.Why do you think ads can't pay for a ride? Don't you have Megabus? I know they are in the United States and in the England and probably in other countries. I can travel from San Francisco to Los Angles for $1. How? Ads. It is ads that allow me to travel for just $1.00.
Megabus follows the yield management model, typically used by airlines, where the lowest fares are offered to those who book early (normally, only one or two seats are sold for 1.00 per schedule), so the less popular schedules tend to be less expensive.
Expect it to be worse with self driving cars.
The venture capitalists are the driving force behind self driving cars.
I was just at a seminar in San Francisco on privacy last week. The venture capitalists and advertising companies are fighting California's pending privacy laws. Similar to GDRP in Europe. With GDRP I would expect Europe to be one of the last places to get self driving cars.
Expect it to be worse with self driving cars.Maybe they will have advertising in the cars, but that's not why they are doing it. Transportation is a much bigger business than advertising.
Any business relying on income from advertisements is going to fade away. It is old style thinking.
The use of ad-blockers shows a steady growth:
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The original length of copyright in the United States was 14 years, and it had to be explicitly applied for. If the author wished, they could apply for a second 14‑year monopoly grant, but after that the work entered the public domain, so it could be used and built upon by others.
In most of the world, the default length of copyright is the life of the author plus either 50 or 70 years.
What prevents them from lobbying until ad-blockers become illegal? Looking at how things are going with copyright issues that seems to be the more likely scenario.
"The original length of copyright in the United States was 14 years, and it had to be explicitly applied for. If the author wished, they could apply for a second 14‑year monopoly grant, but after that the work entered the public domain, so it could be used and built upon by others."
Today it's:
"In most of the world, the default length of copyright is the life of the author plus either 50 or 70 years."
The 1998 Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever end is earlier. Copyright protection for works published before January 1, 1978, was increased by 20 years to a total of 95 years from their publication date.
Sure, but I don't see what it has to do specifically with self driving cars. Your travel data is already being registered if you hadn't realised. Whenever you buy a ticket for an air plane, a boat, a train, a bus or pay for a taxi they register your data if they can (they want you to use special registered cards, or apps, credit cards, etc). If that was made illegal Google would still continue pushing their robocars because having a monopoly on transportation will be more than profitable enough without selling peoples travel data. Big data and privacy is a separate problem.
This is not about ads in the cars. People would hate that. It's all about collecting the meta data about you. Do you not understand how valuable that information is? Using YOUR meta data advertisers can have you travel down street businesses you are most likely to go spend money at.
This is not about ads in the cars. People would hate that. It's all about collecting the meta data about you. Do you not understand how valuable that information is? Using YOUR meta data advertisers can have you travel down street businesses you are most likely to go spend money at.In that case the car would always be driving me home. I rarely go to shops. Except for food I buy 99% online and for food I always go to the same store. Also: wouldn't people get pissed off if their car takes a detour? Taxi drivers sometimes do that. Happened to me in Copenhagen (Denmark): this is the red-light district sir. In a completely unimpressed tone I told the driver I'm from Amsterdam after which the drive said sorry and turned the meter off for the rest of the trip.
I still don't think robocars will make much of a difference when it comes to collecting data about people. Either way, it's not specific to self driving cars so why single them out?. Here in Sweden they made it legal for the US military to collect raw internet traffic data a few years ago. That worries me a whole lot more than directed advertising. It means the US military have access to much more data already than what a robotaxi operator could dream about collecting from their passengers. So robotaxis won't make much of a difference, and the way to fix that problem is by making spying illegal, not hold back self driving car technology.
What prevents them from lobbying until ad-blockers become illegal? Looking at how things are going with copyright issues that seems to be the more likely scenario.
"The original length of copyright in the United States was 14 years, and it had to be explicitly applied for. If the author wished, they could apply for a second 14‑year monopoly grant, but after that the work entered the public domain, so it could be used and built upon by others."
Today it's:
"In most of the world, the default length of copyright is the life of the author plus either 50 or 70 years."
You are mistaken about copyright laws in the United States. Take a look at "It's a Wonderful Life". Can't remember but I think it's the death of the creator plus 100 years. You'll need to verify.
What prevents them from lobbying until ad-blockers become illegal? Looking at how things are going with copyright issues that seems to be the more likely scenario.
"The original length of copyright in the United States was 14 years, and it had to be explicitly applied for. If the author wished, they could apply for a second 14‑year monopoly grant, but after that the work entered the public domain, so it could be used and built upon by others."
Today it's:
"In most of the world, the default length of copyright is the life of the author plus either 50 or 70 years."
You are mistaken about copyright laws in the United States. Take a look at "It's a Wonderful Life". Can't remember but I think it's the death of the creator plus 100 years. You'll need to verify.They call the US copyright act the Disney act for a reason. It extended Disney's copyright on early movies just enough to keep them in copyright, without being so long that it would bring things like Tchaikovsky's ballet scores into copyright.
This is not about ads in the cars. People would hate that. It's all about collecting the meta data about you. Do you not understand how valuable that information is? Using YOUR meta data advertisers can have you travel down street businesses you are most likely to go spend money at.In that case the car would always be driving me home. I rarely go to shops. Except for food I buy 99% online and for food I always go to the same store. Also: wouldn't people get pissed off if their car takes a detour? Taxi drivers sometimes do that. Happened to me in Copenhagen (Denmark): this is the red-light district sir. In a completely unimpressed tone I told the driver I'm from Amsterdam after which the drive said sorry and turned the meter off for the rest of the trip.Who said anything about a detour, I never did. The AI engine along with meta data and advertisers dollars would determine the 'best" route for you. And it's not like you going to be able to grab the wheel or yell at the driver to take a different way.
You are the perfect target for advertisers. Just look at what you revealed to everyone in your post. Food stores would pay to have your car drive past their stores and entice you to come in. And since most of what you buy is online, what if you could get the same item from a store that's right outside your door for the same price? Would you have the car stop and buy it?
What prevents them from lobbying until ad-blockers become illegal? Looking at how things are going with copyright issues that seems to be the more likely scenario.
"The original length of copyright in the United States was 14 years, and it had to be explicitly applied for. If the author wished, they could apply for a second 14‑year monopoly grant, but after that the work entered the public domain, so it could be used and built upon by others."
Today it's:
"In most of the world, the default length of copyright is the life of the author plus either 50 or 70 years."
You are mistaken about copyright laws in the United States. Take a look at "It's a Wonderful Life". Can't remember but I think it's the death of the creator plus 100 years. You'll need to verify.They call the US copyright act the Disney act for a reason. It extended Disney's copyright on early movies just enough to keep them in copyright, without being so long that it would bring things like Tchaikovsky's ballet scores into copyright.