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The progress thus far has been very impressive but the ultimate product the average person imagines as a "self-driving car", one where you can literally devote
by blabus 1y ago
The progress thus far has been very impressive but the ultimate product the average person imagines as a "self-driving car", one where you can literally devote zero attention and do something else entirely while being driven around (and that handles effectively any edge case), is still quite a ways off.
- decimalenough 1y agoWaymo is that ultimate product. Obviously it's not everywhere and you can quibble about what "effectively any edge case" means, but it's close to human level at being able to handle whatever the streets of SF throw at it.
- georgemcbay 1y ago> able to handle whatever the streets of SF throw at it. Not able to handle what the streets of Los Angeles throw at it, however.
- decimalenough 1y agoI don't think human drivers would be much better at handling getting torched by mobs.
- tsimionescu 1y agoAnd yet human drivers keep using the LA streets, including human taxi drivers, while Waymo has paused.
- klipt 1y agoMaybe if the Waymo deployed an inflatable dummy passenger people would be like "oh there's someone in that car, better not torch it"?