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For those nay-sayers pointing out the incidents where the cars had to have manual control taken, I think you're missing the forest for the trees. When there's
by mabbo 9y ago
For those nay-sayers pointing out the incidents where the cars had to have manual control taken, I think you're missing the forest for the trees.
When there's an incident of a car needing a human to take control, what happens next? Cruise will record the incident, and add it to the training data set. Now, the system will learn what it should have done instead and that same kind of incident becomes less likely to occur.
I think this isn't about beta testing the product. I think this is primarily about gathering those failure data points. More cars driving means more miles driven, more data collected, leading to a consumer ready product faster.
And if it happens to give the employees a neat benefit, all the better.
- JetSpiegel 9y agoParaphrasing Tolstoi, every accident is different in its own way. I see that approach as unscalable as current antivirus companies. Making a blacklist of every possible accident condition is as foolish as making a blacklist of every possible harmful Turing-complete program.
- gfodor 9y agoDo you have any evidence to support your claim that "every accident is different in its own way?"
- hikarudo 9y agoOn the contrary, there are more common types of accidents and learning from those will prevent future incidents with some probability.
- mabbo 9y agoWhen you learned to drive, was there a big book of every accident to avoid? Or did you slowly learn the overall patterns, from experience and near-misses? I'm being facetious, but you get the idea.