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Google released a video of their Prius driving a blind man through the drive-thru at Taco Bell, five years ago.

• sjwright 10y ago
  You seriously think driving through one Taco Bell in a mule at low speed is even remotely comparable to driving real streets at real speeds for extended distances with 100% final production hardware?
  • stuckagain 10y ago
    So you didn't watch the video, then.
    • sjwright 10y ago
      Yes, I watched the video. And to jog my memory I just watched it again now. Excatly as I described earlier: "a hacked-together mule loaded up with a pile of sensors on a roof rack." That video has exceptionally high production values indicative of a carefully stage-managed performance on near-empty streets with exotic hardware that's never going to be used in any consumer car. I don't mean to diminish Google's achievement, but it's hardly the same as actually shipping hardware to customers.
      • Fricken 10y ago
        I do not believe that Google was being disingenuous with their blind driver goes to taco bell video. But that's besides the point, demo videos don't mean shit. Getting a car to noodle around the neighbourhood under supervised conditions is a far cry from having a vehicle that can do that reliably all the time. Waymo is down to 1 emergency disengage for every 5000 miles of driving, and that's a far more suitable metric for progress.
• ocdtrekkie 10y ago
  This was basically an entirely pre-staged sequence. It might as well have been a movie set. This is marketing at it's finest, fiction presented as fact.