Re:New reports suggest limits to autonomous vehicle performance
by akvadrako on Friday February 02, 2018 @12:27PM
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The article does not say "no" or that autonomous cars are still getting better at any meaningful rate.
Maybe we're 90% of the way to practical self-driving, but won't reach 99% for the foreseeable future.
Re:New reports suggest limits to autonomous vehicle performance
by tome on Friday February 02, 2018 @12:37PM
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tome's law: In any discussion about an article whose title is a question, Betteridge's law is mentioned with probability 1.
Re:New reports suggest limits to autonomous vehicle performance
by ddlatham on Friday February 02, 2018 @12:45PM
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Perhaps you should revise the law to just yes/no questions?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16288489
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16276911
On the other hand, even those aren't holding up.
tl;dr of the article:
- Autonomous vehicles drove fewer miles in the state of California in 2017, but maybe made up for that in miles driven elsewhere.
- The disengagement rate will probably need to improve considerably before AVs are ready for widespread deployment
- Waymo's disengagement rate barely improved year over year, but that may have been because they are placing the cars in more difficult scenarios (their blog post suggests that is indeed the case)