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Google’s self-driving car vs. Tesla Autopilot
- ocdtrekkie 11y ago"Miles driven" is a completely useless statistic for a self-driving car. The majority of distance driving is straight forward, even in a city. Decision points, such as stoplights, may not account for much distance, but are far more relevant. This article is primarily a breakdown of a completely irrelevant number. People paying attention to "1.5 million miles" or "47 million miles" are falling to marketing ploys based on showing people big numbers. Chris Urmson at Google is largely an outright liar on his car's safety, Tesla at least seems to admit it's not capable of replacing a human.
- electriclove 11y agoI find it to be an interesting strategy by Tesla to get some real world data upon which to build truly autonomous models. Other rumored self-driving competitors (Uber, Apple, etc) are at a disadvantage in that they will be hard pressed to gather real data.