Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
by dgacmu on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:04PM
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"The person in the driver's seat is just there for legal reasons" -- but note just how closely that person's hands are to the wheel, in an obvious state of readiness. That person is 100% ready to take over the car if it messes up.
Tesla had the luxury of running test drives until they had a success. This is a different thing than putting a car on the road with no steering wheel and saying bon voyage. The first is a demonstration of a single successful instance (which is probably repeatable on average); the second is a much stronger demonstration of a > 99% success rate.
Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
by londons_explore on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @04:39PM
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Googles car only does 25 mph. They might have made that video when they only have a 95% success rate, because in the 5% chance of collision it would be at low speed, with a very light vehicle, and very unlikely to cause a fatality.
https://www.aaafoundation.org/sites/default/files/2011Pedest...
Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
by refulgentis on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @03:36AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3DbrYx-SN4
The issue is Google is doing it with (prohibitively) expensive hardware, so we don't know yet if Google's self-driving system works with cheaper Autopilot 2.0-level hardware that the other car makers are going to use as well.