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I disagree, if you look at any of the Waymo videos you can see they have great recognition of every car, pedestrian, and obstacle within 100 meters of the car,
by adamweld 9y ago
I disagree, if you look at any of the Waymo videos you can see they have great recognition of every car, pedestrian, and obstacle within 100 meters of the car, and most of that data (point cloud lidar/radar at the very least) would work in pitch black without even headlights. Thus it's extremely reasonable to expect that autonomous vehicles will easily prevent scenarios like this.
Inclement conditions, defensive driving, etc. are much harder to work with but this should have been cake.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoIf you turn your headlights off on a dark country road, your sight capabilities actually go up, not down. The problem is: most roads are lit or you st least have to compete with other headlights, and it would make you harder to see.
- _up 9y agoThere was also a recent lawsuit where Uber pledged to not use any lidar tech and software from Waymo anymore. Maybe they had to deactivate Lidar.
- asteli 9y agoLIDAR in question on this vehicle is an HDL-64, a commercial unit from Velodyne. Lawsuit is entirely unrelated.
- user5994461 9y agoIf you look at any demo video from the manufacturer, the product is always perfect and amazing.