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This reminds me of a video I watched long ago that analyzes roughly how many miles would a self-driving car need to be driven so that we can have a certain conf

• jeffbee 4y ago
  That's a pretty superficial take. The whole thing relies on the gigantic denominator of human miles, but humans are artificially inflating their average because overwhelming majority of miles driven are extremely simple trips on limited-access highways. Waymo, by comparison, racked up its million miles driving around the SF Tenderloin, in the dark. Opposite to the claims seen elsewhere in this thread, which are omnipresent whenever the topic arises, it is in fact humans who are driving around on easy mode and self-driving car developers operate in the most difficult conditions they can find.
  • debatem1 4y ago
    > self-driving car developers operate in the most difficult conditions they can find. Ehhhhhhh. While I agree that these aren't the easiest driving environments in the world, they are certainly mild climates. If I were in the business of proving that waymo vehicles weren't ready for prime time I'd be taking them up the alcan in winter or Florida during hurricane season, not Phoenix.
  • ctchocula 4y ago
    > Waymo, by comparison, racked up its million miles driving around the SF Tenderloin, in the dark. You might be confusing them with Cruise. Waymo is driving around SF driverless 24/7 so the million miles also come from during the day, while Cruise is limited to nighttime.