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Yet another catastrophist haphazardly connecting dots that shouldn't be connected. The article "lost" me here: > More than $100b has been incinerated chasing s
by utopcell 3y ago
Yet another catastrophist haphazardly connecting dots that shouldn't be connected. The article "lost" me here:
> More than $100b has been incinerated chasing self-driving cars, and cars are nowhere near driving themselves
Erhm, ..what ? An over-eager Cruise rushing to market does not negate 20 years of Google-quality research. I have driven Waymo cars multiple times in SF and by user testimonials, they have already avoided accidents (possibly even saved lives). I am finding myself thinking WWWD (what-would-Waymo-do) when I'm driving.
- jhbadger 3y agoA lot of people (including Cory) have decided that because the initial overoptimistic estimates a decade ago that predicted true (as in no steering wheel, not as in just helping you stay in your lane and avoid collisions) self driving cars by 2020 or whatever were wrong, that this means that the entire concept is impossible. I don't get the argument myself -- it's not like this is the first example of a technology that took longer to turn into a usable product than expected.