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Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Are Flocking to a Dead-End Street in San Francisco
- mathattack 5y agoInteresting. I’ve noticed a lot of bad directions from Google Maps the past month or so. Same issue?
- gok 5y agoThe actual article without the G/O Media blog spam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28855065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28855065
- illinx 5y agoWhat are the chances they set their world origin in San Francisco?
- 3pt14159 5y agoMy guess: There's a small inaccuracy in the map data (I can think of a number possible ways this could happen) leading the cars to think that the dead end road connects somehow to where they want to go, but it doesn't. So they give up but don't update the data for the rest of the fleet. Something like that. Theres a false link in the graph.
- itisit 5y agoAnd once these vehicles become sentient they’ll be flocking away from San Francisco.
- hoopleheaded 5y agoThe area in question is quite nice and doesn't have as many of the problems as other areas of the city you are probably thinking of.
- hammeiam 5y agoWhat a diverse set of interviewees