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And we have various versions and levels of drivereless cars today...

• gambiting 5y ago
  Do we? Where? The best version currently in existance could be (generously) described as an automated bus that only drives on a pre-mapped grid and still needs human supervision because you can't quite trust it yet. The most well known commercialy available "autopilot" (from Tesla) is so hilariously bad that I honestly don't understand how it's even legal to use, much less to sell for real money.
  • warcher 5y ago
    Even wide distribution of long-haul trucking exclusively on the interstate, or an automated bus-like commuter service (but actually good, unlike the regular bus), would be a pretty meaningful innovation, wouldn't it?
    • gambiting 5y ago
      Of course, and it would be awesome, and I believe that sort of thing is actually possible within a relatively short timescale. General self driving like 90% of people do every day? Nope, don't see that.
  • AlotOfReading 5y ago
    Neither waymo nor cruise currently require human supervision. That's the whole point of this announcement: waymo is expanding their driverless program to SF. Whether the grid is pre-mapped or not isn't particularly relevant. It's just how the technology works. The vehicles aren't driving on rails, they just have more semantic information about the world around them.
  • treesprite82 5y ago
    Waymo arguably reached level 4 with commercial taxis with no human at the wheel a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__EoOvVkEMo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__EoOvVkEMo
• vkou 5y ago
  We have various automated versions of lane assist, auto-braking, and parallel parking that mostly work. Fortunately, we also have a developing world where we can pay humans $2/hour to mechanical-turk tele-operate our 'mostly-working' AI.