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Your comment made me wonder whether i hadn't miss anything : are car actually able to drive themselves in clear condition at the moment ? I've seen the demos o
by bsaul 9y ago
Your comment made me wonder whether i hadn't miss anything : are car actually able to drive themselves in clear condition at the moment ?
I've seen the demos of the start ups in the valley, the local experiments, but i'm still waiting for a single real-world deployment, even limited to local driving, such as city to city taxi driving, or item delivery.
On the other hand, i did hear of the trouble with tesla's autopilot "2" not driving properly on regular roads under the sun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ1XLqc5IUg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ1XLqc5IUg).
- w-m 9y agoExcept for a bunch of small buses that go at walking speed in a very limited area there are no commercial autonomous cars currently deployed. There are self-driving cars that drive themselves well in clear conditions, but these are the R&D cars with an expensive sensor suite on the roof and a bunch of processing power in the trunk that can't be found in production cars.
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- LeifCarrotson 9y agoI think you're about 12 months behind. The cost of the (LIDAR) sensor suite is down to $5000 from $50-100k and poised to go lower, and the processing power needed in the trunk is being achived with simple dev boards that cost as much as an enthusiast GPU. You can buy an off-the-shelf Vega GPU and have tens of teraflops on your desk. That's still more money than not having those components in your vehicle, for sure, but that's well within luxury car territory and costs are still coming down rapidly.