While this video might have been made for fun, it could, in fact, hide an inherent underlying truth that entrusting car control to machines running on software developed by (imperfect) humans always comes with a inherent chance of malfunction.
If what we’re more specifically talking about is a computer program controlling a car, then any malfunction can be a critical life-threatening one – the point about the biggest hurdle for driverless cars being the legal one is a valid one.
The video posted below is basically a pamphlet of a commercial that follows the model of many before it, trying to use humor in order to raise awareness about certain (usually tech-related) issues that will be brought about by progress.
It tells the quick story of “Steeri,” a fictitious Apple-mocking smartphone app that can not only respond to the user’s vocal input like the fruit company’s own Siri, but can, as its name suggests, also control the vehicle it’s being used in.
Scroll down, laugh and be ever so slightly disturbed by what you see…
By Andrei Nedelea
Story References: YouTube via Autoblog.com
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