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Google's car clearly isn't going to work in the real world (can it follow detour signs? Get out of the way of emergency vehicles? Understand a cop directing tra
by chrismealy 9y ago
Google's car clearly isn't going to work in the real world (can it follow detour signs? Get out of the way of emergency vehicles? Understand a cop directing traffic?). Why is Google pretending otherwise? Why are they doing this?
- teach 9y agoGoogle's car can already read the hand signals from bicyclists[0]. They have logged literally millions of miles of safe driving. They really aren't "pretending". However, there are different classifications[1] of autonomous vehicles. Google's car is currently somewhere around level 3. It's true nobody has a level 4 car yet. [0] https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/05/google-autonomous-cars-cyclist-friendly/ https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/05/google-autonomous-cars-c... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#Classification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#Classification