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I would describe the difference as: Waymo drives like a limo driver, carefully and smoothly, and tries to disappear for the passengers in the back seat. Tesla F
by simonjgreen 2y ago
I would describe the difference as: Waymo drives like a limo driver, carefully and smoothly, and tries to disappear for the passengers in the back seat. Tesla FSD drives like a car owner might, and tries to make the person in the front seat feel like the behaviour of their car is the same as they would do it.
- ticklemyelmo 2y agoI rode in a Waymo for the first time last week. The highest praise I can give it is that it's boring. It drives like a careful human with zero surprises.
- llamaimperative 2y agoYeah it’s hilarious (frightening) when Tesla cultists say that the surprise in FSD’s behavior makes it exciting. That attitude is why people who share the roads are tired of Tesla’s and their loyalists’ constant excuses for this stuff.
- raverbashing 2y agoHumm I wonder if there's some truth to that, some kind of pattern matching, like "at this stretch of the road usual behaviour was: speed X mph, turning at this and this points, etc"
- tzs 2y agoThe more important difference is that Waymo's FSD system is SAE level 4. The Tesla FSD system that is in their cars that people can currently buy is level 2. The difference is that the former only needs human help in rare circumstances. The latter needs human help in common circumstances. If you base you robot taxi on a level 4 system you just need humans on standby to respond when the car knows it needs help and asks for it. If you base it on a level 2 system you need humans monitoring during routine trips to be ready to intervene when the car is about to do something stupid and has no idea that it is out of its league.