A recent study suggests that automatic cars have the ability to learn the same way humans do.
With new road tests being done by companies like GM, Ford, Facebook, Volkswagen, and Google, new information about the effectiveness of self-driving cars is pushing to the top of our newsfeeds. The most recent tests done by car scientists suggested that the self-driving cars they have developed are learning from the behaviours of other drivers.
One car, sent out on the streets of Los Angeles as a pay-what-you-will Uber, has picked up a few habits like not fully stopping at stop signs and sounding the horn every time another driver cuts them off.
These findings have led certain scientists to speculate about the future of the driverless car phenomenon. They came to the logical conclusion that cars will, in the not-so-distant future, be raising our children for us.
The logic goes: if cars can develop the same temperament while driving that humans have, why not get those cars to do other things for us?
This new development has been seen as a globally impactful capitalist strategy. Martin Goldman, owner of a series of daycares in the Silicon Valley envisions this future as “Just fantastic for cars. I think in a few years, we’ll be seeing Civics and Beetles at the polling booths.”
So far, there has been no word about a babysitting program for the cars, but it’s only a matter of time.
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