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I don't understand how you write this paragraph > Sure, there are some self-driving cars on the roads today. They’re in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Ha
by SpicyLemonZest 3y ago
I don't understand how you write this paragraph
> Sure, there are some self-driving cars on the roads today. They’re in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Hamburg, and Beijing, among other cities. They’re operated by some of the biggest, most well-capitalized companies in the world. You can even ride in some of them.
without immediately reconsidering the thesis.
- qarl 3y agoThe cars work ONLY in areas which have been specifically mapped out, to the smallest detail. In that way, they're very much like a vehicle following a programmed track. A car that can drive in an unfamiliar situation like a human isn't possible yet.
- SpicyLemonZest 3y agoIt seems to me that going from "self-driving cars, what a wild idea" to "cars routinely drive themselves through city centers" in under a decade is a massive success story for the technology, even if they still have limitations that early boosters were hoping wouldn't be an issue. I'm not being coy here - I honestly do not understand how the author can look at the facts he's reported and believe that "the imminent arrival of safe, reliable self-driving technology" didn't happen.
- qarl 3y agoIt's because it was promised, a long time ago, and still has not arrived. If we hadn't been given the expectation of fully self driven cars, we wouldn't have come to expect it.