The Economist (September 4)
2021/ 09/ 06 by jd in Global News
“By the age of seven months, most children have learned that objects still exist even when they are out of sight.” Understanding object permanence “is a normal developmental milestone, as well as a basic tenet of reality. It is also something that self-driving cars do not have. And that is a problem.” Though autonomous vehicles “are getting better,” they still are unable to “understand the world in the way that a human being does. For a self-driving car, a bicycle that is momentarily hidden by a passing van is a bicycle that has ceased to exist.”
Tags: Autonomous vehicles, Bicycle, Children, Developmental milestone, Hidden, Human, Object permanence, Reality, Self-driving cars, Seven months
