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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by legulere on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @03:59PM (#14197425)
> "Humans can calculate arithmetic perfectly accurately, why do we need computers to do it for us?"

It's more like humans can think, why should we trust a computer with a task where unforeseen circumstances can arise?

Further, if I got the current state correctly, no self-driving car system so far works in rainy conditions.

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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by maverick_iceman on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @06:11PM (#14198597)
We already trust computers to operate all vehicles to some extent. Almost all vehicles sold today have large amount of software controlling them.
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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by JDulin on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @04:05PM (#14197474)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51qqzFE0rsw
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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by mythbuster2001 on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @05:29PM (#14198234)
This is not rain. This is a drizzle on a very well maintained, center divided freeway, where the radar and ultrasonic sensor has a very nice reference (divider). Also with cars tracked in front. Example of (non-autonomous) driving in a real rain here for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3xKT98a3og
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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by blazers on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @01:27AM (#14200627)
you mean this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAxoo6JLmgg

or this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoGgE55qNBA

and this is just a L2 system...come on brah come harder

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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by monkmartinez on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @05:52PM (#14198444)
How about a haboob near phoenix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vQMuwRjI6s
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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by legulere on Thursday April 27, 2017 @11:36AM (#14212274)
Because there was almost no rain in the beginning I jumped forward a bit and directly hit a point where the autosteer shuts off (a bit before the 10 minute mark)
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