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I saw this thing drive by my office in Tokyo the other day, and did a double take, but then I noticed the man sitting inside actually driving it. So I thought
by veidr 11y ago
I saw this thing drive by my office in Tokyo the other day, and did a double take, but then I noticed the man sitting inside actually driving it.
So I thought the "Robot Taxi" on the side of it was just a slightly weird name for a Japanese taxi company.
That is cool that self-driving cars are taking off here, too.
However, I must admit that the whole Toyota software development practices scandal will make me think twice before getting in a Japanese self driving cab. I would rather be stuck at a green light while my googlecar is confused by a fixed gear bicyclist, than in a robotic taxi suffering from unknown "process death" events in its untestable assortment of dozens of interweaved subsystems…
- lifeisstillgood 11y agoI think that basing your decisions on, with all due respect, gut feelings about the software development processes at Google and Toyota is still the wrong approach. We need to have open testing environments - government / regulatory / whatever defined tests that tell us the systems under test are performing as expected. And have enough openness around the concepts such that VW style approaches to beating tests are .. Easier to find. But interesting point about the development processes - something is there
- camdroid 11y agoI don't think the statement about Toyota is a "gut feeling": http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer-firmware--Bad-design-and-its-consequences http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer...