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Robotaxis are on the road today in multiple cities. That's nothing to sneeze at, large fleets of totally autonomous vehicles in complex city environments is som
by laidoffamazon 4y ago
Robotaxis are on the road today in multiple cities. That's nothing to sneeze at, large fleets of totally autonomous vehicles in complex city environments is something something roboticists have never done before!
- marcellus23 4y agoThose environments have been mapped out to a very high level of detail. It's a similar "long-tail" problem — all very well and good to have self-driving cars running around downtown SF after spending tons of effort and time creating a virtual map of the city, but it's quite something else to get general self-driving that will work across the entire country.
- laidoffamazon 4y agoI don’t think doing it for the entire country is even a goal for these AV only companies. For trucking theyll HD map the highways. For city center taxi service HD maps and remote assistance are fine.
- minwcnt5 4y agoCruise went from nothing to a public driverless service in Austin in 90 days, and that involves a LOT more than just mapping the area. Waymo had a comparable timeline for expanding to downtown Phoenix from the suburbs. Mapping is not the albatross you think it is. It's essentially just Google Maps/Streetview (which covers the whole world) with extra sensors and larger hard drives. A problem that's been solved for over 15 years already.
- PinguTS 4y agoDid you read and understood what I wrote: "The cars the Waymo runs, are running in very dedicated areas, which are highly mapped."
- laidoffamazon 4y agoI simply don't see the problem with areas being highly mapped. For the record, operational areas can be mapped very quickly now - I think I read a Waymo presser that said they mapped their LA operational area from 0 in a few weeks.