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If I can’t sleep while it drives me to work it’s not autonomous
by matt3210 1y ago
If I can’t sleep while it drives me to work it’s not autonomous
- caminanteblanco 1y agoThat's the kind of autonomous that'll make a difference
- UncleOxidant 1y agoI don't think we get there until we have all of the nearby vehicles on the road communicating.
- slg 1y agoI can order a Waymo from my phone right now and sleep in the backseat while it drives me across town.
- pier25 1y agoAnywhere in the world under any conditions? (rain, snow, etc) We're at least a decade away from that.
- slg 1y agoThose goalposts moved pretty fast from "sleep while it drives me to work" which I can do today to the extreme of being able to drive "Anywhere in the world under any conditions". And I see no reason to believe "all of the nearby vehicles on the road communicating" is the solution to bridging that gap.
- pier25 1y ago> "sleep while it drives me to work" People work all over the planet during all seasons, don't they?
- slg 1y agoReread my original comment or even just the that short seven word quote you have right there. Notice that key word "me". I was speaking about myself in the present tense, not "people... all over the planet during all seasons".
- sidibe 1y agoHard for me to square that opinion with the fact these are normal for people in some cities now
- OJFord 1y agoThat's what I want to, but I don't think it's really a fair complaint given that this has been reasonably well defined. What we both want is 'L5' (level five) autonomy, where the vehicle doesn't even need the ability to be manually driven necessarily. (L4 iirc is hands-off but someone in the driver's seat (which must therefore exist) in a fit state to take over if necessary - no sleeping on the way in, no drinking on the way home.)
- achatham 1y agoWhat you're describing is L4. L4 is fully autonomous but with limitations on where/when it can operate. Level 5 is that but without restrictions. Level 2 and 3 are the mostly-automated version, and they differ in how much notice they're supposed to provide and how much attention they require.
- SkyPuncher 1y agoI want a step before it right now. Let me use my phone or watch videos on the highway. I’m okay with taking over with a small amount of warning. I’m also okay doing all non-highway driving. I just want something that can keep me in my lane and avoid ramming the vehicle in front of me. If I need to drive at the start and end of my trip, that’s okay.
- aianus 1y agoThis is what I want too, driving 15 min manually in the city doesn't bother me or tire me out at all, I just want to watch TV when driving straight on the interstate for 300 miles.
- duxup 1y agoI want to turn my mini van into a mini living room. Everyone climb in, let’s play some Point Salad or Splendor!
- 65 1y agoYou can sleep in a Waymo taxi already.
- xyst 1y agoYou can already do this with commuter trains.
- spiderice 1y agoWhat a joy for people who live near commuter trains
- jcranmer 1y agoMaybe we should build more commuter trains so that more people can live near them, then.
- xnx 1y agoA self-driving vehicle is like a commuter train that operates on your own schedule and goes between any two points and doesn't require billions of dollars of new tracks to be built and runs on clean electric power instead of diesel.
- jcranmer 1y agoMoving self-driving vehicles requires billions of dollars of new roads to be built. The statistic I like to use is that the train tunnels underneath the Hudson River into Manhattan move more people than all of the road crossings into Manhattan combined. It's probably cheaper in the long run to invest in better regional rail systems than it is to to keep widening highways; people drastically underestimate the costs of highway construction.
- xnx 1y ago> Moving self-driving vehicles requires billions of dollars of new roads to be built. I haven't heard this. Wouldn't self driving cars use the same road infrastructure we already have?
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