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They have driven millions of miles - in perfect driving conditions: great weather, lots of highways, all of it by day (how do I know that? Simple: Google would
by Slartie 11y ago
They have driven millions of miles - in perfect driving conditions: great weather, lots of highways, all of it by day (how do I know that? Simple: Google would brag about their AIs being able to drive in rough situations if they were able to do that. But they don't. They just brag about a huge number of miles in undefined conditions...). That is exactly what the original poster criticized. When driving is so easy that it bores human drivers to death, todays' AIs can be better.
The problem is: real-life driving does not only consist of situations that even a child could easily manage. Humans are extremely good at letting their driving skills degrade gracefully when conditions get rough. AIs? They drive perfectly until they reach their limit, then they suddenly pull off epic fails - if no human driver is on standby to resolve the situation immediately.
- dcroley 11y agoI guess I was dreaming last Friday when I saw the Google self-driving car pass by twice on the same route, at 10:30pm. I even handled a stop with very limited visibility on one side like a champ. If anything, I think self-driving cars will end up driving like my Grandma, but probably safer.
- lamontcg 11y agoYour grandma, with the ability to receive telemetry from every other car around her, knowing her position to within a few mm, having a reaction time governed by light speed delays, and knowing as much about the Physics of driving a car as an army of PhDs has been able to teach her. And programmed to turn off the blinker light after merging onto the freeway...
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- ZanyProgrammer 11y agoLast Friday's weather in Mountain View wasn't very stormy IIRC
- ethanbond 11y agoWell, for one, it could have still been driven at that point by the driver.
- euyyn 11y ago> all of it by day (how do I know that? Simple: Google would brag about their AIs being able to drive in rough situations if they were able to do that. But they don't. They just brag about a huge number of miles in undefined conditions...) They totally drive by night too. How do I know that? Simple: You see them with your own eyes, in Mountain View. Even if Google doesn't brag about it.
- Strilanc 11y agoGoogle mentions focusing on city driving instead of highway driving in their annual disengagement report [1]: > Mastering autonomous driving on city streets -- rather than freeways, interstates or highways -- requires us to navigate complex road environments [...]. This differs from the driving undertaken by an average American driver who will spend a larger proportion of their driving miles on less complex roads such as freeways. Not surprisingly, 89 percent of our reportable disengagements have occurred in this complex street environment (see Table 6 below). 1: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//selfdrivingcar/files/reports/report-annual-15.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...