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Our next vehicle sensor suite will be able to handle winter weather (https://waymo.com/blog/2024/08/meet-the-6th-generation-waymo-driver https://waymo.com/blog/
by boulos 1y ago
Our next vehicle sensor suite will be able to handle winter weather (https://waymo.com/blog/2024/08/meet-the-6th-generation-waymo-driver https://waymo.com/blog/2024/08/meet-the-6th-generation-waymo...).
- suddenlybananas 1y agoI'll believe it when I see it.
- DougBTX 1y agoThat’s one of the interesting things about innovation, you have to believe that things are possible before they have been done.
- AYBABTME 1y agoOnly if you've set out to build it. Otherwise you can sit and wait.
- layer8 1y agoBelieving a thing is possible doesn’t by itself make it so, however.
- pixl97 1y agoThis is kind of weird. It's like saying "Driving in snow is impossible", well we know it is possible because humans do it. And this even ignores all the things modern computer controlled vehicles do above and beyond humans as it is. Take most people used to driving modern cars and chunk them an old armstrong steering car and they'll put themselves into a ditch on a rainy day. Really the last things in self driving cars is fast portable compute and general intelligence. General intelligence will be needed for the million edge cases we need while driving. The particular problem is once we get this general intelligence a lot of problems are going to disappear and bring up a whole new set of problems for people and society at large.
- suddenlybananas 1y agoAh we only need general intelligence, something so ineffable and hard to understand that we don't even have a clear definition of it.
- LtWorf 1y agoWill it be able to function on super slippery roads while volcanic ash is falling down? Or ice? I do drive in these conditions.
- sylos 1y agoCan people handle that? people have millions of accidents in perfect weather and driving conditions. I think the reason most people don't like at drivers now is because it's easy to assign blame to the driver. Ai doesn't have that easy out. Suddenly we're faced with the cold truth: reality is difficult and sometimes shit happens and someone gets the short end of the stick.
- LtWorf 1y agoNo people can't handle that. We just stay home for 2-3 months and hope our food supplies don't run out -_-'
- Tryk 1y agoBlog post is almost exactly 1 year old...