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I don't see how this is in any way contacting the article. It seems to be confirming it. The article just said that the cars needed a "remote human interventio
by SamBam 3y ago
I don't see how this is in any way contacting the article. It seems to be confirming it.
The article just said that the cars needed a "remote human intervention" every few miles. Well, what you described was exactly that, an intervention.
The point is that if they need this kind of intervention every few miles, on average, than they're still not really at the level of driving themselves around town.
- raylad 3y agoThe implication of the article, and also some subsequent discussion here, was that there were remote drivers driving the cars around, and that the supposed self-driving was not really happening. This is clearly not the case. When I was in Cruise cars they did all kinds of things that looked really difficult, like figuring out that a truck was stopped and double-parked and going around it, dodging cyclists that got in front of it, navigating around cars that were double parked on both sides of the street like a maze, etc. Then, they would get stumped by unusual configurations like the one I recounted. So whether they are 'at the level of driving themselves around town' or not depends on your definition. They drove around quite deftly although a bit erratically, and using sometimes very circuitous routes, but they definitely seemed to get all around town with only occasional glitches, none of which seemed at all unsafe (when I was in the car at least).