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Waymo has cars outfitted with 100k in sensors, HD maps, and their cars are geofenced to a few neighborhoods with excellent visibility. What Waymo is doing is wa
by gizmo 6y ago
Waymo has cars outfitted with 100k in sensors, HD maps, and their cars are geofenced to a few neighborhoods with excellent visibility. What Waymo is doing is way easier than solving the general problem of self-driving, where cars have to figure out safe solutions to not-seen-before problems.
I think it will take years before Tesla FSD can drive from A to B without making catastrophic errors, but at least they're trying to solve the correct problem. And I think it's important to remember that it's OK if self-driving cars behave stupidly in ways that don't kill people, because the status quo has people dying every day because they're drunk/tired/texting, and self-driving only has to outperform the worst drivers in order to be a big leap forward.
- threeseed 6y agoTesla is not solving the correct problem i.e. “how to build the best FSD car with the best technology” They are trying to solve the “how to build FSD that works on existing Tesla cars because Musk has tricked a whole bunch of buyers into handing over money” problem. Our heads constantly move around and have the worlds most advanced neural network trained over decades to understand objects and how they behave. So for us vision works. But because Tesla isn’t solving the right problem they insist on going down this road instead of LiDAR which is safe and works.
- tibbydudeza 6y agoEvolution took only 6 million years to get the wetware sorted that is then trained daily for years to get it in a state to make it able to drive with approx. 4 accidents occurring during it's entire lifetime.
- ahartmetz 6y agoI think Waymo is going about it the right way, given the reliability required: Solve 100% of the problems in a restricted environment, then gradually remove restrictions on the environment and solve 100% of the problems after every step. I think this offers some divide and conquer benefits and guards against introducing sloppy hacks that are hard to disentangle from the system later. Sounds logical, doesn't necessarily mean it's true. I'm not an expert.