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Re:Latest to Quit Google’s Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboti... by kuschku on Saturday August 06, 2016 @08:57AM (#12237965)
Google's cars have:

0 miles in snowstorms

0 miles in historic city centers with small mixed-use (pedestrian, bike and car) streets without lane markings

0 miles in mixed-used residential streets (basically, it's both a footpath and a street, usually with kids playing on it, and also used for cars)

etc.

They mastered only highway driving and driving on perfectly segregated roads.

That's the easy part that VW and Sony's cars had already working in 2008.

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Re:Latest to Quit Google’s Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboti... by beachstartup on Saturday August 06, 2016 @10:00AM (#12238128)
i think self driving cars will be a reality, but probably in no less than 50 years.

it's 2016 and we can't even keep websites up without armies of people tending to them 24/7. i don't know what reality everyone who is enthusiastic about this technology is living in.

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Re:Latest to Quit Google’s Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboti... by ghaff on Saturday August 06, 2016 @10:42AM (#12238259)
A lot of "AI"/machine learning/etc. examples show impressive results on relatively narrow and well-controlled use cases. A lot of people look at those and extrapolate to much broader and less controlled environments with lots of messy corner cases and assume it's just a bit more incremental work to get there. Whereas, in fact, getting from essentially a demo to mostly just works in messy real world environments can easily be 90% of the work.
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Re:Latest to Quit Google’s Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboti... by strathmeyer on Saturday August 06, 2016 @10:27AM (#12238213)
hint: Google hired from CMU's DARPA team
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Re:Latest to Quit Google’s Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboti... by kuschku on Saturday August 06, 2016 @05:05PM (#12239929)
If that is the case, the vehicles might have a better chance at operating under winter conditions, but it likely still won't help them in the streets of Mumbai, Amsterdam, or Rome.
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