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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by adewinter on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:34PM (#15221553)
What does "go L4 or L5" mean?
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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by robotresearcher on Monday September 11, 2017 @04:26PM (#15221971)
They are Lagrange Points. The cars don't have the hardware to reach them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point

Or maybe there's some notation collision...

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by manmal on Monday September 11, 2017 @04:33PM (#15222033)
It's about level 1-5 autonomy.
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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by khazhoux on Monday September 11, 2017 @05:20PM (#15222437)
I think he was joking :-)
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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by cozzyd on Monday September 11, 2017 @06:19PM (#15222939)
Pathetic, the Trojans got to L4 and L5 long ago.
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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by nrb on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:37PM (#15221577)
It's a classification[1] for the level of automated driving capabilities in a vehicle.

1) https://www.sae.org/misc/pdfs/automated_driving.pdf

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by serg_chernata on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:35PM (#15221562)
Levels 4 and 5 of driving automation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#Levels_of_drivi...

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Re:Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car by jhkim on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:36PM (#15221567)
http://standards.sae.org/j3016_201609/

no driving automation (level 0) to full driving automation (level 5)

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