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Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'." tl;dr of the article: - Autonomous vehicles drove
by dasimon 9y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines:
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'."
tl;dr of the article:
- Autonomous vehicles drove fewer miles in the state of California in 2017, but maybe made up for that in miles driven elsewhere.
- The disengagement rate will probably need to improve considerably before AVs are ready for widespread deployment
- Waymo's disengagement rate barely improved year over year, but that may have been because they are placing the cars in more difficult scenarios (their blog post suggests that is indeed the case)
- akvadrako 9y agoThe article does not say "no" or that autonomous cars are still getting better at any meaningful rate. Maybe we're 90% of the way to practical self-driving, but won't reach 99% for the foreseeable future.
- tome 9y agotome's law: In any discussion about an article whose title is a question, Betteridge's law is mentioned with probability 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9077549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9077549
- ddlatham 9y agoPerhaps you should revise the law to just yes/no questions? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16288489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16288489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16276911 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16276911 On the other hand, even those aren't holding up. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16277231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16277231
- tome 9y agoGood point and good observation! The statement of Betteridge's Law itself would have to be changed though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines