Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders

Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by aianus on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @02:09PM (#14196383)

Using a billion miles of real world experience to decide that that technology was insufficient is, in fact, progress.

It may have gone the other way. Remember, the primary sensor technology in 99.999% of cars out there is two front facing visual-light cameras pointing the same way on a swivel and couple of mirrors.

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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by maxerickson on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @02:16PM (#14196460)

That's an awfully generous take on their decision and pretty dismissive of the squishy stuff located behind the the Mark I eyeball.

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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by argonaut on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @04:24PM (#14197637)

It's not progress if the market leader, Google, already knew (or at least decided) that approach was wrong.

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