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Self driving cars exist and are safer than human drivers, Waymo being the obvious answer - https://waymo.com/research/do-autonomous-vehicles-outperform-latest-g
by aerokr 2y ago
Self driving cars exist and are safer than human drivers, Waymo being the obvious answer - https://waymo.com/research/do-autonomous-vehicles-outperform-latest-generation-human-driven-vehicles-25-million-miles/ https://waymo.com/research/do-autonomous-vehicles-outperform.... Replacement is a matter of large scale deployment and coordination with legal frameworks, which isn’t the same problem as self driving cars.
- carlmr 2y agoHas Waymon figured out how to scale this yet? Last time I checked they needed highly precise and up to date maps that are not just available for every location, and thus they're limited to small test regions.
- mdaniel 2y ago> highly precise and up to date maps I would guess that's one of those "pick any two" things, given how many construction projects, repair, "life happens" stuff goes on in a modern city That said, unless I'm totally missing something they have a self-solving problem with that since the Waymo's all carry around cameras, lidar, and presumably radar so I would expect that they update the maps as they go. Come to think of it, that's very likely why I originally saw them roaming around the city with drivers in them: testing the pathfinding and mapping at the same time
- carlmr 2y agoYes, exactly the constant updating (last I heard) was what caused scaling issues. I'm not sure if they resolved it yet. But yes, they should be able to use the driving data to improve the updating process. Not sure if it can be fully automated yet though. I would believe at some point this is possible though, since at least if they send the data home about things that "don't match" with their precise maps, they can easily use as much compute as they want on the servers to get the maps updated.