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Which is no different to a whole host of bad human driving as well. Mistakes are inevitable in something like driving, they happen to even the best human driver
by dageshi 2y ago
Which is no different to a whole host of bad human driving as well. Mistakes are inevitable in something like driving, they happen to even the best human drivers. All that matters is that over time the self driving mistakes decrease to the point they are far below the human average.
I don't see the point of picking one example of a mistake and pretending it's indicative of a failing endeavour when literally no other company is even close to what Waymo is doing right now.
- PostOnce 2y agoSeveral different comments in this sub-thread call this a "mistake". Machines don't make mistakes. If a crane collapses, it didn't make a mistake. If a robot car drives into oncoming traffic, it's not a mistake, it's an engineering failure, a bad design. This wasn't a fuckup in a prototype, this was a life-critical fuckup 15-20 years into the project which is still confined to a small number of well-mapped cities with good weather. So my point stands, major fuckups decades into a project when conditions are fairly close to ideal are not acceptable and are indicative of a failed project. As an aside, it's also not the case that "better than human" is all that matters. The kind of fuckup also matters because people vote, and votes change regulations. If people don't like it, it won't be legal. Driving into oncoming traffic in broad daylight with 20 years of engineering progress is not something people are going to say "oh okay well sometimes my grandma does that too" to. You guys are wearing rose-tinted glasses.