The Cape Verdean island of Boa Vista is almost round, 31 km from north to south, 29 east to west, has few roads and five thousand inhabitants. Long before that, when there was no asphalt and only two cars on the island, the two met, between Sal Rei and Rabil, and shocked. Two is a conflicting account in Boa Vista. One of his sons, Daniel Filipe (1925-1964), he is the author of the famous poem The Invention of Love . What I kissed his pretext the poem. A . man and a woman is the story The army and the police searched us and the newspapers announced: “You have to find them / Before it’s too late.” At the end of the poem, yet sought them: “The police and the army are ready / It is expected to soon capture the fugitive couple. “
, but talking about a more modern history. In late June, 23, a Tuesday, I was an Audi Q5 the road San Antonio in Palo Alto, California. Was a person in the car but, notice, sitting in the passenger seat. The alert reader is able to have guard post when I wrote Palo Alto. Of course, in Silicon Valley, the region of modern stuff: the Audi was one of two prototypes of Delphi Automotive, a company that walks the test cars without driver. Equipped with lasers, radar, cameras and a computer with software that put the lead alone. That road that day, our smart Audi took every care to change lanes and make overtaking. Would be history.
It turns out the car in front was a Lexus RX400 belonging to Google rival company, also equipped with the paraphernalia that allows you to walk alone. This, one of the twenty Google prototypes in California, not with a human passenger would, solitude was complete. And what did such a Lexus, so lonely inside? Behaved like an American from those of the 1970s, faithful to Detroit, and insulted, top of your Chevrolet or Buick, the traitors who bought foreign cars. What was, at least, inconsistent, because if Audi was German, Lexus is Toyota
No matter:. with software hotheaded, Google’s Lexus lurched to the left, causing the Audi to abort overtaking. There was shock, but was down in history as the first road incident between two cars without driver. Of course, not worth the romanticism the shock of the island of Boa Vista. But it must be for scientific annals as one facalhão a Australopithecus honed to clean nails and ended up stuck in the stomach of a contemporary collector
Here arrived, is to rewind.: the version of the near miss was given to Reuters by the passenger of the Audi, Delphi Automotive Engineer, Google rival. The cars are already able to walk alone but still can not do aldrabadas insurance statements. But let’s take cheap the blame, that little interest compared to the magnitude of the (almost) accident. So far, the driverless car accidents happen only to other cars with human drivers. Most of these accidents because autoconduzido car stopped at an intersection or a traffic light and was hit from behind. And in all cases, according to the unsuspected testimony of the Road Department of California, never the fault was of a prototype without a driver.
I mean, this time, there were machine fault . That exceed the intended or not left to overcome, no matter. Importantly, it came the first computer humanization sign with software chartered, who reacted like the computer HAL in 2001-A Space Odyssey . In 2015, odyssey in San Antonio Road, Palo Alto for the first time, an empty car and driven arose two fingers, index and ring collected, the middle finger frames stiff and well shown in the rearview mirror! How to say ‘come over there, palonço! “In programming language?
[Originally published in the edition of July 12, 2015]
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