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i suspect the reason why all these years these cars operate only in like half dozen locations is that these locations have been and probably continuously are be
by twelve40 3y ago
i suspect the reason why all these years these cars operate only in like half dozen locations is that these locations have been and probably continuously are being expensively mapped to death in greatest detail (to avoid accidents and bad PR). Otherwise they would have been testing in many more locations.
- dexwiz 3y agoDefinitely, all the self driving car companies have been driving around SF for years gathering data. I think Waymo even advertised it “got to know the neighborhood and peoples routines” as part of training.
- netsharc 3y agoPeople's routines, huh? Next thing you know you'll get Google ads for divorce lawyers because the car has noticed your wife's car parked not outside the yoga school, but next to this dude's car outside the Holiday Inn every 3rd Thursday of the month...
- dylan604 3y agoAs if people aren't already being served ads based on their Android device gathering the exact same data plus even more.
- moonchrome 3y agoIf you hire through the ad you get the surveillance data bundled. And people say targeted advertising doesn't create value.
- rurp 3y agoFor sure, I have seen this confirmed by a Waymo employee on HN. I think some people are vastly overestimating how close we are to widespread AVs, since they don't realize how narrow the successes are so far.
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