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Counterpoint, it's happening now with Waymo.
by jonknee 8y ago
Counterpoint, it's happening now with Waymo.
- Fricken 8y agoWaymo's initial commercial deployment is imminent but is now a good 6 months behind their initial announcement last November. Waymo is still using safety drivers most of the time, and the commercial deployment will likely be confined to members of their EZ rider guinea pigs. It's very exciting seeing how far they've come, but for every new region they hope to roll out in there's going to be a ton of work. AI can interpolate but it cannot generalize. We're past peak hype and sliding into the trough of disillusionment.
- tigershark 8y agoWhy is 6 months behind if they said that they will launch a commercial service this year?
- Fricken 8y agoLast November Krafcik said "In a few months". A few months later in March it was changed to "Later this year." Rumours circulated that they had planned for this month, August, which were corroborated by a big Bloomberg puff piece and a ballyhooed partnership announcement with the Valley transit authority, that came out late July, but still no deployment. They're hung up on something.
- Piskvorrr 8y agoRight, right. Any moment now, and with flying cars, too. I am not holding my breath.
- LoSboccacc 8y agofunnily enough self driving flying cars would be likely in a better shape to become a reality ai wise, because there are less human there and one can work within the framework of exclusion zones with governments to let them share the sky safely.
- Piskvorrr 8y agoExcept for the other part, i.e. failing to fly well. Which is sort of the point: "it's just around the corner, except there's always this one tiny inconvenience, but it will be completely awesome once we do something about it, so let's just handwave it off for now." (Yeah, yeah, I know that somebody made a render of a flying taxi this year. And last year, and the one before that, and the one before that, all the way to Kitty Hawk.)