Robot driving a taxi using Human Level Artificial Intelligence

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This video shows a robot taxi driver driving to a destination location using the long route because he wants to make extra money. There are no sound in this video because I want to show the viewers what the robot is thinking while drive a taxi. The flashing text on the screen are the internal thoughts of the robot and not text instructions for the viewers.

Autonomous cars are navigation systems that plot the shortest and safest routes and drive passengers to their destination location. A human taxi driver is different in that its main purpose isn't necessarily driving the taxi from the current location to a destination location using the fastest route. They have goals while they are driving the car.

There are news articles written recently about corrupted taxi drivers who deliberately take long routes to a destination location. The reason is because they want to make more money.

One thing autonomous cars currently can't do is drive cars based on personal goals. If a police officer is chasing a criminal, the autonomous car has to drive fast and can break traffic rules. If a person is being chased by a gunman bent on killing him, the autonomous car has to drive fast and can break traffic rules. In some extreme cases, crashing the car is necessary. For example, if there was a bar that was on fire, and people can't get out through the front entrance, the robot can drive a car and crash it into the side of the bar so people can get out.

Another thing the autonomous car lacks is the ability to perform tasks on the car. MIT's car and Standford University's car are AI cars with cameras mounted on them (the wheels and foot pedals move by themselves). My autonomous car has a human robot inside controlling the vehicle. My method is better because the robot can do things to the car, besides driving. For example, the human robot can refuel when the car runs low on gas. It can fix the car if it breaks. The robot can carry groceries for passengers or carry luggage for passengers. These are things both MIT and Stanford University's cars can't do.

And I am beginning to suspect, the US government project by DARPA, called the robot challenge 2012 is an attempt by the Technology companies to move away from a navigation system and build a human robot that can drive a car.