5 ms·
EVs make sense but at this point self driving cars are fantasy vaporware. Executives should be tired of embarrassing themselves in public with grand pronounceme
by seibelj 6y ago
EVs make sense but at this point self driving cars are fantasy vaporware. Executives should be tired of embarrassing themselves in public with grand pronouncements of “just 6 more months!” by this point.
- whimsicalism 6y agoFantasy vaporware that I still routinely see driving past my house.
- kcb 6y agoEveryone quickly move the goalposts.
- Hypx 6y agoIf you mean a car without a driver and outside of a geofenced area, you definitely have not seen one before.
- whimsicalism 6y agoI don't know if I'm in a "geofenced area." I live in San Francisco, I routinely see self driving cars.
- vel0city 6y agoCan I hop in one of those geo-fenced cars and have it drive me to Las Vegas? How about staying in state lines, can it drive me to Sacramento? Monterrey? Santa Cruz?
- Hypx 6y agoI'm guessing that's Cruise Automation. They talked about driverless cars in specific neighborhoods, but I haven't anything formally happening on that front. So they're either still using drivers or it's geofenced.
- whimsicalism 6y agoI see both Cruise and Waymo routinely and maybe one other I am forgetting the name of right now.
- Hypx 6y agoAgain, either with drivers or geofenced.
- brianpan 6y agoMaybe for Tesla (I own one), but this is pretty convincing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAZ6tJSj9T4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAZ6tJSj9T4
- camjohnson26 6y agoI’m old enough to remember 2016 when FSD was still 6 months away. Waymo was started 12 years ago and still can only operate in a small geomapped area with expensive hardware. Tesla’s offering would still kill you if you let it drive start to finish with no intervention. Still not sure how they get away with calling it Full Self Driving when it requires driver supervision.
- lazycrazyowl 6y agoYandex had demonstrated their self-driving car technology in Las Vegas with just a safety engineer in the front passenger seat (NVO Mode) providing demonstration rides of its self-driving car on the public streets of Las Vegas starting from the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino during CES 2019. CES 2019 - https://youtu.be/uRyTEW2OuWw https://youtu.be/uRyTEW2OuWw MKBHD review riding the Yandex car in CES 2019 - https://youtu.be/gfWjsKsEry0 https://youtu.be/gfWjsKsEry0 Ann Arbor, MI in Aug 2020 - https://youtu.be/nhqyrze30bk https://youtu.be/nhqyrze30bk I may be wrong but the reason why I guess it remains vaporware to the masses might have something to do with the regulatory and bureaucratic red tapes that ensures it continues to stay a vaporware.
- vel0city 6y agoGoogle showed a self-driving car taking a blind guy through a Taco Bell drive-through. Clearly ready for prime time, probably just a year off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgQpa1pUUE&feature=emb_title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgQpa1pUUE&feature=emb_titl... That video was released on March 28, 2012. Nine years ago in 48 days. You'd think if it was just a little regulatory red tape a multi-billion dollar corporation or two (or three) would have figured it out in nine years. Maybe its more than just a few rules changes that's keeping truly full self driving carson some very select routes.