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You can achieve L4 before you can determine if a pedestrian is paying attention. Your car will be slowing down when it doesn't have to but it can work and work
by Symmetry 8y ago
You can achieve L4 before you can determine if a pedestrian is paying attention. Your car will be slowing down when it doesn't have to but it can work and work safely.
- Fricken 8y agoWell, it has to work well enough to be useful. When Waymo reports one disengagement every 11,000 miles, that's just the safety critical disengagements. The total disengagement rate is much higher than that. They are also relying on teleoperators who can help guide the vehicles out of tricky situations, which are myriad and it will take forever for Waymo to build features down to a granular enough level that they can operate reliably enough to compete with Uber.
- rayiner 8y agoSlowing down isn’t always an option and it’s not always safe. (What happens when all the human driven cars keep driving at normal speed? You’ve now created an unsafe traffic condition for everyone.)