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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek a Buyer, Without Success by tim333 on Friday August 19, 2016 @06:46PM (#12324061)
"Level 4: The vehicle performs all safety-critical functions for the entire trip, with the driver not expected to control the vehicle at any time."

You can get on a bus that does that now in Helsinki. Admittedly they are slow and on set routes but even so they're there.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/18/technology/self-driving-bus-...

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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek a Buyer, Without Success by dilemma on Saturday August 20, 2016 @03:28AM (#12325598)
Preprogrammed paths is absolutely not what is meant by self-driving vehicles. Preprogrammed means a human has made all the decisions an actual self-driving vehicle would need to make.
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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek a Buyer, Without Success by tim333 on Saturday August 20, 2016 @05:37AM (#12325865)
Though whatever you call them there's a lot of potential for that kind of stuff. There are a lot of busses in the world and if they can drive themselves that's a big thing even if it is on set routes. Plus trucks driving themselves on certain prepared interstates with humans to take over for the last 10 miles could be big.
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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek a Buyer, Without Success by dilemma on Sunday August 21, 2016 @12:46AM (#12329425)
They're not "driving themselves" in either case. They are executing a program.

Problem is, that makes them rigid and unable to handle anything unplanned for.

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