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Miles driven is only one axis of many, does Waymo get from A to B as quickly as the average human driver would, or does it play it safe by staying in the slow l
by jsheard 2y ago
Miles driven is only one axis of many, does Waymo get from A to B as quickly as the average human driver would, or does it play it safe by staying in the slow lane and taking suboptimal routes to avoid challenging areas?
- 1970-01-01 2y agoAnother bias is baked into this announcement: how would it fare in Boston, NYC, or DC? Are they better because they're better than humans or are they better because they're cherry-picking their test cities?
- throwup238 2y agoSan Francisco is not Manhattan but its hardly an ideal driving environment. It’s a lot harder to drive there than Phoenix. Narrow streets packed with park cars, lots of bikes and pedestrians jaywalking, a homeless population that spills over into infrastructure, etc. It’s a good test case for most US cities that aren’t NYC.
- noiseinvacuum 2y agoAnd lets not forget the hills. Driving in SF is no joke. In my 20+ rides with Waymo, it feels that it drives more confidently than most Uber drivers I've had experience with.
- 1970-01-01 2y agoIt isn't due to weather. SF weather is nowhere near equivalent to Boston or NYC weather.
- romwell 2y agoIt also means that everyone is driving significantly slower, while making frequent stops. A LIDAR is pretty much all you need to avoid a collision. It's a pretty forgiving environment.
- mxwsn 2y agoIn SF, waymo isn't particularly slow, and drives remarkably humanlike to me, unlike Cruise which regularly took 2x as long to drive anywhere as a human would, and drove very much not like a human would.