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How does Pittsburgh strike you? https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/26/5-companies-are-testing-55-self-driving-cars-in-pittsburgh/ https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/

How does Pittsburgh strike you? https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/26/5-companies-are-testing-55-self-driving-cars-in-pittsburgh/ https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/26/5-companies-are-testing-5... (Maybe they’ll finally figure out the belt system /s)

lotsofpulp 6y ago
> meaning that they’re capable of performing all driving functions autonomously under certain conditions, and they drive on public roads mostly during weekdays (both during the day and at night) with occasional testing on weekends “only during favorable weather conditions.” Since they don’t advertise being able to drive in less than ideal weather, I assume it means they can’t yet.
- derwiki 6y ago
  I don’t want to be pedantic but you said: > I have yet to see any evidence of a self driving vehicle that can handle anything other than the simple roads of sunny AZ or CA. I’m not disagreeing about weather constraints in the ODD. But I don’t think anyone who’s driven in Pittsburgh thinks it has “simple roads” like Chandler, AZ. I should have been more explicit I was only responding to that aspect.
  - lotsofpulp 6y ago
    Yeah, that was news to me and I’m happy there are advances being made. I was responding to claims of automation hitting truck drivers relatively soon (in the next decade), and causing drivers to lose employability, which I think is pie in the sky thinking. If anything, I think truck drivers’ jobs will be resilient and in demand with all the move to delivery in the next decade or even two. It’s going to take a lot of time and data to prove the safety of self driving trucks and sort out the calculation of liability and who is insuring what.
mcphage 6y ago
> Maybe they’ll finally figure out the belt system /s Look, they're just machines, they're not miracle workers ;-)

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How does Pittsburgh strike you? https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/26/5-companies-are-testing-55-self-driving-cars-in-pittsburgh/ https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/

by derwiki 6y ago

lotsofpulp 6y ago
> meaning that they’re capable of performing all driving functions autonomously under certain conditions, and they drive on public roads mostly during weekdays (both during the day and at night) with occasional testing on weekends “only during favorable weather conditions.” Since they don’t advertise being able to drive in less than ideal weather, I assume it means they can’t yet.
- derwiki 6y ago
  I don’t want to be pedantic but you said: > I have yet to see any evidence of a self driving vehicle that can handle anything other than the simple roads of sunny AZ or CA. I’m not disagreeing about weather constraints in the ODD. But I don’t think anyone who’s driven in Pittsburgh thinks it has “simple roads” like Chandler, AZ. I should have been more explicit I was only responding to that aspect.
  - lotsofpulp 6y ago
    Yeah, that was news to me and I’m happy there are advances being made. I was responding to claims of automation hitting truck drivers relatively soon (in the next decade), and causing drivers to lose employability, which I think is pie in the sky thinking. If anything, I think truck drivers’ jobs will be resilient and in demand with all the move to delivery in the next decade or even two. It’s going to take a lot of time and data to prove the safety of self driving trucks and sort out the calculation of liability and who is insuring what.
mcphage 6y ago
> Maybe they’ll finally figure out the belt system /s Look, they're just machines, they're not miracle workers ;-)