Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passengers in self-driving cars

Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by rayiner on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:11AM (#20351450)

Not bugs but rather design limitations. For example, the basic design limitation of Tesla's autopilot, which causes it to crash into stationary objects: https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar.

That's the real risk with self-driving systems. Bugs are sporadic. But design limitations create the risk that you could have mass-accident events if everyone on the road runs into the same edge case at the same time.

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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:21AM (#20351483)

Tesla’s self driving implementation is very behind Waymo’s, they don’t even use LIDAR. Yes, Musk or Uber could drag the whole self driving reputation in the dirt easily with substandard tech.

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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by bobsil1 on Thursday July 04, 2019 @05:08AM (#20352906)

We don't shoot lasers out of our eyes either.

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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by arrrg on Thursday July 04, 2019 @06:17AM (#20353205)

And birds don’t have turbines or propellers. I don’t understand the argument?

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