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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by nialv7 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @06:12PM (#13172160)
> They need to reliably deal with an almost infinite number of edge and corner cases, each quite different from the last.

It doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be better than average human drivers. Sure there will be cases it can't handle. But the same is much more true for human.

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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by dilemma on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @06:18PM (#13172214)
Red herring. It doesn't need to be perfect; it needs to handle an infinite number of edge cases. Humans can, machines cannot.
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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by nialv7 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @08:47PM (#13173139)
Strictly speaking, it needs to handle an infinite number of edge cases _in a very limited amount of time_

Machines might not be able to, humans definitely can't.

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