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I've been using Uber for several years....it has not DESTROYED the taxi business. No doubt it has put them on their heels, but it hasn't destroyed them....yet. Try getting Uber from a major airport...you can't. Newspapers have adapted, just as other industries will. So in this world of driverless cars that are going to shoot around and drive people everywhere, you're still going to have tremendous spike issues. When everyone needs a ride home from work, all those cars are needed....during the day what are they doing when demand is down? Or is everyone telecommuting? What about rural areas where it will be financially upside down to have a service like this, much like it is financially upside down today to deliver internet and other services to rural areas? What's going to happen on the crime side...are we going to have gangs just hunkered in the back blasting away now and not having to worry about the driver getting shot.....happens here in LA all too often....I'm looking forward to the Crips and Bloods and the Mexican driverless cars...should be fun.
I agree with Chico's. I'm not in favor of minorities and gangs getting driverless cars. Way too much at stake. Just another example of millennials ruining this country. (shakes fist)
So what happens when the pilotless plane is hacked by someone and flown into the ground, building, etc? Presumable these vehicles need to be connected on a network of some kind to get commands to dispatch, etc.
In February 60 minutes did an entire segment on how hackers can get into you car now, reprogram it and take control making you powerlesshttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/car-hacked-on-60-minutes/One of the vulnerabilities Kaufman and DARPA are working to eliminate that affects many is in the automobile. Cars today are loaded with computers networked to each other, and those can be hacked remotely. In a dramatic demonstration, he and his colleagues use a laptop computer to hack into a car being driven by Stahl. Much to her surprise, they were able to take control of many of the car's functions, including the braking and acceleration.
Yes, I saw it. Thing is, taking over a car is peanuts in the grand scheme of things. Take over a few airplanes all on the same day in a coordinated attack because they are all on the same network...now that can cause some problems.http://www.forbes.com/sites/dougnewcomb/2015/02/09/60-minutes-joins-car-hacking-hype/
Oh yes the taxi business has been destroyed. In Chicago a taxi medallion is essentially worth zero. That is nearly the case in NYC too. The reason you cannot get Uber at the airport is their are banned by local governments from operating at the airport.And Uber is a good example to answer the second half of your post. Uber just had its fourth (yes, fourth) anniversary a few weeks ago. Look how far they have come in just four years. I explained the END of the process. Yes their will be cultural resistance to getting there. Things will have to change. It will take time. Driverless and driver will at first exist side-by-side. Drivers will continue to muck things up by making mistakes making people not like them and prefer driverless. We used to have telephone and elevator operators, the were automated away too. It took time but it happened.A hundred years ago the same thing was said about the gasoline car and why the horse would never go away ... No infrastructure in the rural areas (no gas stations). And when forward thinkers imagined the rise of the cities and commuting because of "horseless carriages " people scoffed. LA was invented. "Driverless carriages" will do the same to culture and living styles.Spikes because of rush hour? Two things.First things move a lot faster because of the efficiencies in driverless and all connected and figuring routes out via algorithm when you know what all the other cars are doing. So when it's raining at 5pm and you get in the back of a driverless car, you will be complaining that you're only doing 70 on the 405 (no speed limits on highways in a fully driverless world).Driverless also means driverless trains, busses, taxi pools. Driverless ups and fedex trucks means cheaper and far more efficient deliveries. How much driving is chores you'd rather not do? Getting groceries, going to the store knowing exactly what you need. It's a waste of time and resources. Order it and it arrives in 10 minutes via driverless delivery.Again my larger point is driverless is as relovoutionary as the Internet itself. Did you miss the opportunity to be a zillionaire in the early stages of the Internet because you did not "get it." You have another opportunity with driverless.
It has not been destroyed. Destroyed means gone, done. It is not done. A NY taxi medallion is about $800K right now. Certainly down from the $1M paid last year, but not destroyed. Doesn't mean it won't be destroyed in the future, but it's like your video claim last year. You tend to get way ahead of yourself.
If we are going to worry about hacking, getting a few planes is small potatoes as well. Hack the Federal Reserve payment system (aka Fed Wire), once in you can create thousands of erroneous transactions between banks rendering the entire Global banking system insolvent. The stock market crashes and all ATM are closed until further notice. It's worse in other countries.That does not kill people. Ok, hack into the nations power grid. Once in shut down electricity for large parts of the country and meltdown a few nuclear power plants to boot.Point is if you're going to worry about hacking into networks, they are far more important networks that exist right now that could destroy the west in a day. If this doesn't keep you up at night, then don't worry about a network of driverless cars or pilotless planes.
Disagree, hacking a few planes is psychological warfare and screws with the mind like few things can. We are reminded every time we fly when we have to take our shoes off and go through the ordeal. The car hacking you can still pull the emergency break, break a window, jump out a moving car, grab the steering wheel, etc. On a plane, you're screwed and with the amount of fuel and mere size of the vessel, you're talking about a very damaging weapon.Yes, I agree about the financial stuff....it is very concerning what could be done.
A NYC taxi medallion traded for $550k earlier this weekhttp://nycitycab.com/Business/TaxiMedallionList.aspxAnd their is accusations that the taxi and limo commission is lying about medallion prices on their websitehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/12/01/new_york_taxi_medallions_did_tlc_transaction_data_inflate_the_price_of_driving.htmlAnd the Greater New City Taxi association is investigating (they won't find anything because they don't want to know the truth).http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/upshot/taxi-owners-in-new-york-seek-inquiry-on-medallion-prices.html?_r=0As long as Uber exists, their only value is airport rides (Government controlled monopoly) and hailing, which won't cover costs in the world of Uber competition.
I agree with much of what has been said by the advocates for driver less cars, except for the time frame.Yes, the tech is there now and yes someone will have driverless cars on the road within 5 years. But for any significant mass adoption it will take a lot longer. I think the low hanging fruit will be dealt with first, which means "auto pilot" cars with a driver at the controls and responsible for the vehicle.It will take 10 to 15 years for the majority of cars on the road to have this feature.As far as worrying about people loosing jobs because there are less accidents, no worries. Think of all of the money governments will save in paying for hospital bills. I told a personal injury attorney friend of mine to make his money in the next 10 years as accident rates will be going down by then, and will plummet in 20 years. All good.
Commercial licensed pilot here. Jet's are all ready largely automated. Landing and takeoff can both be done automated, and around 75% of the time the cruising time is done by the computer. It's a best kept secret by pilots that they largely do not have a job unless something goes wrong.
How hard would it be to reprogram a plane to prevent a suicidal co-pilot from intentionally crashing a plane into a mountain?
Your computer skills are lacking. If all flight calculations are done on the plane (Which they will be) there will be no network to hack to tell the airplane to fly down.
So in the future these planes will have no connections of ANY KIND to home base, an airport, etc, from a network? Whether it is for clearance to land, to divert to another airport, etc, etc?I find that hard to believe....there will be some kind of network connection of some kind. the last thing anyone is going to do is not have some kind of failsafe, override mechanism control.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.