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> That's not driving: it's merely remote humans answering a question about where to drive in case of a novel obstacle on the road. Listen to yourself.

• kccqzy 2y ago
  Google Maps tells me where to drive. Does that count as driving? If so, Google has achieved self driving decades ago.
  • doctorpangloss 2y ago
    > Does that count as driving? In this comment, you are saying the verbatim words "where to drive" to mean the navigation that Google Maps does, but then you used the verbatim words "where to drive" to mean resolving questions about obstacles. So I guess, yes, resolving questions about obstacles is indeed remote driving, and navigation questions from Google Maps is not remote driving. But everyone already knows that. The sort of obvious definition of self driving means no human intervention whatsoever, which Waymos also fail. So I don't know. Why doesn't Waymo use Google Maps instead of people to tell the car, "where to drive"?
    • kccqzy 2y ago
      Very simple. Because there are real-time conditions on the road not known by Google Maps. Google Maps can tell me to turn right at an intersection, but I can see that police cars have blocked that road so I decide to proceed straight. Same thing with Waymo; its routing indicates turning right but it finds obstacles on the right. So it asks a remote human what to do. Both of these are "where to drive" questions. It's just that their answers come from different data sources, and one is easier to answer than the other.
• fnordpiglet 2y ago
  It’s the difference between Star Craft and Doom.