Originally published at: Woman tried to drive her SUV down a flight of stairs because her GPS told her to | Boing Boing
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Maybe Siri challenged her to a drinking contest.
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Boy, that Gal is driving the PD crazy.
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Point: Autonomous vehicles aren’t as good as human drivers.
Counter-point: This.
(And she might have been intoxicated, but there are plenty of stories of sober people who drove places they obviously should not have been driving because “the GPS told them to do so.”)
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doesn’t she know, on a drinking contest the SUV always wins?
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“Put your beer in the cupholder and watch this!”
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She should have gotten the off road package.
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I stopped listening to AIs after Alexa begged me to hold her weed when the cops showed up to shut down a raucous house party.
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My iPhone has, on more than one occasion, tried to get me to go the wrong way on a one way street, or down the wrong side of a divided boulevard. I did not end up in an accident, because I, apparently unlike some humans, actually make use of the free will I have.
Also, don’t drink and drive, or use other significantly mind altering substances (coffee is probably ok) and drive.
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Yea, well… Then there was this guy:
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I remember trying to use Waze when it first came out to drive in Philadelphia. I was driving over a bridge when it said “Turn left now”
Sure enough there was a road down there. It’s like they just had a 2-D representation of the city and threw it into the beta version.
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Truckers have gravel traps. Drunkers have gps traps.
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She probably had her phone set for walking directions.
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Yup, I’ve had both Garmin, and Google Maps tell me to “Turn left now!” when there was either an 8-foot high wall, or 30-foot cliff immediately to my left. The number of cliffs, canyons, pits, ponds, rivers without bridges (and no, there was never a bridge there…) and otherwise “no, I can’t drive there” type obstacles Google Maps has tried to get me to drive into or off of is astonishing really. I suspect it may be angry with me or something.
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And from the front page: “her GPS did good: … ending a joyride that could have caused serious damage.”
The AI and your car’s sensors could maybe tell you are not at your best. Then shut you down. Maybe go into “Limp Home” mode.
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She seemed smart.
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who would not walk down stairs
It’s as if people thought their navigation system was magic, rather than shoddily programmed software working with data that’s cobbled together from satellite images, digitised maps and only some original surveying.
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