3 ms·
This seems at least lazy, and at worst click-mongering, in light of the recent article on Waymo's testing regime. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archiv
by zellyn 9y ago
This seems at least lazy, and at worst click-mongering, in light of the recent article on Waymo's testing regime.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/inside-waymos-secret-testing-and-simulation-facilities/537648/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/insid...
It has several discussions on making self-driving cars act more human-like:
> It turns out that the hard part is not really the what-if-a-zombie-is-eating-a-person-in-the-road scenarios people dream up, but proceeding confidently and reliably like a human driver within the endless variation of normal traffic.
> Waymo seems like it has driving as a technical skill—the speed and direction parts of it—down. It is driving as a human social activity that they’re working on now. What is it to drive “normally,” not just “legally”? And how does one teach an artificial intelligence what that means?