Questions about autonomous vehicles
Summary
Something deep in the soul of anyone in industry is the desire to look at repetitive tasks and wonder “Could I make a machine to do that?” Freeing up people to “do other things” is a recurring force in invention. The challenge in all this is that many times, as Jeff Goldblum playing Dr. Ian Malcom so aptly states in the movie Jurassic Park, “…your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.” Simply put, nothing happens in a vacuum. The industrial revolution largely put these skilled seamstresses, blacksmiths, furniture makers and others on the back burner of career paths. Ask people who worked for the Royal Typewriter Company, or Kodak or Fuji film makers, or any number of obsolete technology promoters. A few miles north of Redding, California, the highway department was stopping all vehicles and requiring them to have chains on-board as it was starting to snow heavily in the Mt.