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Can't help but laugh whenever I read about self driving cars predictions like this sorry. My GPS can hardly navigate most of the world I'm not really excited a

Can't help but laugh whenever I read about self driving cars predictions like this sorry. My GPS can hardly navigate most of the world I'm not really excited and if the only criteria of self driving car is self driving on a high way then color me uninterested. I don't think self driving cars will be able to traverse majority of the world's traffic anytime soon. The road is just too difficult to maintain for human free driving with the exception of few major block cities on America which makes the whole ordeal pretty boring.

virgilp 6y ago
Self driving cars don’t need to be 100% autonomous in all possible scenarios in order to be useful. Self-driving reliably on the highway? Hell yes I’d take that (just think of trucks - having a driver to the highway is so much cheaper than having someone drive it cross-country). Self driving reliably in a few major cities? Oh, you mean cheap robotic taxi?
- kabacha 6y ago
  I agree with you it's just as I said - it's not what we've been sold and autopilot on highway is kinda boring.
- frellus 6y ago
  Spot on. This is our approach at Ghost Locomotion - L3 is pretty darn good, and highways are actually pretty standards driven, unlike local roads or cities. https://medium.com/ghost-blog/the-long-ignored-most-obvious-path-to-autonomy-2b4412626a6d https://medium.com/ghost-blog/the-long-ignored-most-obvious-... https://medium.com/ghost-blog/the-future-of-transportation-is-the-car-8eac64b6cee https://medium.com/ghost-blog/the-future-of-transportation-i...
reanimated 6y ago
I think its incorrect way to view it like its either full self driving or none at all. We are getting incremental benefits from this already: cars are correcting and preventing driver errors. They make instant trajectory corrections or complete stop and prevents a huge crashes. With time they will be better and better at recognising traffic lights, road signs, sudden unforeseen situations and so on and that way driving safety will improve exponentially even before self driving capabilities.

virgilp 6y ago

Self driving cars don’t need to be 100% autonomous in all possible scenarios in order to be useful. Self-driving reliably on the highway? Hell yes I’d take that (just think of trucks - having a driver to the highway is so much cheaper than having someone drive it cross-country). Self driving reliably in a few major cities? Oh, you mean cheap robotic taxi?

kabacha 6y ago
I agree with you it's just as I said - it's not what we've been sold and autopilot on highway is kinda boring.
frellus 6y ago
Spot on. This is our approach at Ghost Locomotion - L3 is pretty darn good, and highways are actually pretty standards driven, unlike local roads or cities. https://medium.com/ghost-blog/the-long-ignored-most-obvious-path-to-autonomy-2b4412626a6d https://medium.com/ghost-blog/the-long-ignored-most-obvious-... https://medium.com/ghost-blog/the-future-of-transportation-is-the-car-8eac64b6cee https://medium.com/ghost-blog/the-future-of-transportation-i...

reanimated 6y ago

I think its incorrect way to view it like its either full self driving or none at all. We are getting incremental benefits from this already: cars are correcting and preventing driver errors. They make instant trajectory corrections or complete stop and prevents a huge crashes. With time they will be better and better at recognising traffic lights, road signs, sudden unforeseen situations and so on and that way driving safety will improve exponentially even before self driving capabilities.