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According to a new York times article recently, Waymos vehicles are currently driving on average 5600 miles between user intervention. For Uber this number was
by rtpg 9y ago
According to a new York times article recently, Waymos vehicles are currently driving on average 5600 miles between user intervention.
For Uber this number was 13
5600 miles starts becoming "I need to use the wheel only 4 times a year" territory.
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- JKCalhoun 9y ago> 5600 miles starts becoming "I need to use the wheel only 4 times a year" territory. It sounds like you're saying I will very likely die 4 times a year. If anything, perhaps the better performing algorithms will lead to more complacency (inattention) on the part of the driver... Sort of a Catch-22? (Or is there a better analogy I'm not thinking of.) Call me a Luddite, but I think I would prefer to steer the car myself, thank you. When someone says, self-driving car, I assume they mean a taxi, bus or train: all well-proven technologies.
- smnrchrds 9y agoAre all 4 interventions safety-critical? They may simply be a case of the car having trouble finding the way out of a parking lot for example.
- rtpg 9y agoWell to be fair Waymo drivers aren't dying 4 times a year, it could be that the car just pulls over. I agree that this isn't enough for full autonomy. And that partial autonomy can lead to false security. But I bet there are a lot of drivers who have more than 1 incident every 5k miles.