Re:Uber to Suspend Autonomous Tests After Arizona Accident
by mannykannot on Saturday March 25, 2017 @09:51AM
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When reading Google's disclosure reports, note that the human drivers are instructed to preemptively take manual control in situations where an error could have consequences, so the accident-rate statistics do not reflect the systems behavior in the situations that would really test its capabilities.
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Re:Uber to Suspend Autonomous Tests After Arizona Accident
by panarky on Saturday March 25, 2017 @11:31AM
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They also report the number of "disengagements" where the human driver had to take control of the vehicle.
In 2016, Waymo cars drove 636,000 miles with 124 disengagements [1].
Uber’s autonomous cars drove 20,354 miles and had to be taken over at every mile [2].
Uber is a menace.
[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/02/california-dmv-autonomous-car-...
[2] http://www.recode.net/2017/3/16/14938116/uber-travis-kalanic...
Re:Uber to Suspend Autonomous Tests After Arizona Accident
by makomk on Saturday March 25, 2017 @12:45PM
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Also, Uber outright refused to comply with California law and register their self-driving car program, and it's looking more and more like the reason they did that is so they didn't have to publicly disclose those disengagement numbers.
Re:Uber to Suspend Autonomous Tests After Arizona Accident
by tyingq on Saturday March 25, 2017 @11:44AM
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I suspect you're right. However, a higher number of disengagements could just point to a more cautious approach, more difficult environment, etc. Hard to pin it exactly to maturity.
For example, I believe Waymo cars drive mostly on a fixed number of preplanned routes. You would expect limited disengagements over time, as it's got tons of data on those specific routes.