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Re:GM says it will put fleets of self-driving cars in cities... by tome on Friday December 01, 2017 @02:35PM (#15826610)
> So, IF you can get to viable technology for specific use cases, there's not much reason to think you can't get to workable economics.

This seems like a good analysis, but are there particularly good reasons to believe we will be able to produce a car that drives through an urban environment, at any cost?

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Re:GM says it will put fleets of self-driving cars in cities... by ghaff on Friday December 01, 2017 @03:42PM (#15827219)
Some day. At this point, IMO it would be foolish to say never or not for a century. We could find ourselves in a place where the current path that's mostly deep learning gets close but not close enough. But we seem to be moving forward pretty well even if the last 5 to 10% takes a couple decades longer than many people think.

But I'm still inclined to think that generalized door-to-door autonomy without a competent human present is still a long way out.

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Re:GM says it will put fleets of self-driving cars in cities... by kjksf on Friday December 01, 2017 @04:10PM (#15827520)
Waymo cars already drive in Phoenix, Arizona (i.e. urban environment) without human drivers.

https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-google-arizona-phoenix-dri...

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