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> You know with current technology we can't have completely driver-less cars. Why not? Doesn't the Google car have a near-spotless record with minimal human in
by gaur 11y ago
> You know with current technology we can't have completely driver-less cars.
Why not? Doesn't the Google car have a near-spotless record with minimal human intervention?
- ghaff 11y agoUnder a very limited set of conditions. Anyone who believes that this translates into door-to-door general driving without a human even present anytime remotely soon is... optimistic.
- RealCasually 11y agoLiving in Mountain View and driving with Google's self driving cars every day, I have to say I think they are quite a bit further than you give them credit and those conditions appear to be less limited than you are letting on here.
- datawrangler 11y agoSomething I've long wondered: howwell do they deal with inclement weather?
- agildehaus 11y agoThey do well in rain but snow remains a problem, not due to icy roads (at SXSW Chris Urmson said they do well on slick roads) but that the "better than GPS" LIDAR-based location tracking stops working when snow is on the ground. The car simply cannot figure out where it is when there's a significant layer of snow on the ground because the reference maps stop looking like what the car is seeing. https://youtu.be/Uj-rK8V-rik?t=46m22s https://youtu.be/Uj-rK8V-rik?t=46m22s
- datawrangler 11y agoSomething I've long wondered: howwell do they deal with inclement weather?
- notatoad 11y agoI could be wrong, but last I heard google's self driving cars still required a high-precision 3D map of any route they operate on. They can drive on marked roads in mountain view and a couple other areas Google has mapped, but they're a long way from sensors that let cars drive an arbitrary route on any road.