Automated cars from Minority Report
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN refers to it as a pop-culture picture of autonomous vehicles, not as something to watch for its content.
What it is
A two-minute clip of the self-driving cars from the film Minority Report, showing driverless vehicles with rotating passenger compartments on a highway.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2017 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Cites tyingq · 2017-10 · on “If all cars were autonomous”
Minority Report does a decent job depicting several of these topics. Self driving cars[1], intrusive ads[2], and "no crime". [1] [this video] [2] [LINK] Not bad for a 2002 film adaptation of a 1956 short story.
Cites petre · 2020-09 · on “Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM”
Good luck selling a golf cart to car users. I think the future is vehicles like those that we saw in Minority Report. [this video]
Cites alexpotato · 2024-09 · on “Tips for Building and Deploying Robots”
The post mentions several times how it's both costly for adopter to add infrastructure to support robots but also how other forces can make that infra already there e.g. how it costs money to install wifi in a warehouse but handheld scanners led to wifi being in them anyway (which was great for the robots too). This reminded me of a quote about the future of automated driving (paraphrasing): "We currently consider the following to be distinct and very different modes of transportation: - car - elevator - train At some point, those will all converge into a vehicle that can travel on roads (like a car), with other vehicles (like a train) and bring you up to a building floor (live an elevator).