Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline

Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by nojvek on Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:42PM (#13134567)

Teslas don't come equipped with a LIDAR, that cruise, uber, udacity and google have been adding as a very important sensor.

Lidar sees a 3D cloud around the car with almost a cm accuracy. Better sensors could have most definitely prevented the accident.

However, to add to tesla's point. I have a car with adaptive cruise control. Not having to constantly check distance with car head has probably saved me once or twice from a crash.

Good auto-pilot's are definitely going to reduce human deaths on roads. Not only just deaths, but the amount of traffic all of us have to endure because someone just didn't keep the right distance from the car infront and bumped into them.

I'm all for open smart driving technology.

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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by legolas2412 on Thursday December 08, 2016 @06:42PM (#13135411)

Yup, but I hope you see that an always-on driver assistance system is really different from a completely self-driven car.

I see so many people (like the one two replies above) push the argument for the latter using the advantages that even the first would give.

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