Lyft Is Said to Seek a Buyer, Without Success

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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