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		friedman23 on June 17, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tesla Autopilot You don't need 38 petaflops to drive a car. We are wasting our minds driving. Driving doesn't need creativity, it needs the 360 degrees of awareness without any lapse in concentration and the ability to react in milliseconds.

nsxwolf on June 17, 2017 [–]

I would peg the human brain at closer to 1 flop. That's about how many floating point operations I can do in a second, and only very simple ones.

bjelkeman-again on June 17, 2017 | [–]

You do more than that when calculating the trajectory of a ball thrown that you have to catch. Just not with numbers.

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