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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by blub on Thursday July 04, 2019 @02:32AM (#20352084)
Maybe some are expecting an error rate of 0, but the little data we do have on self-driving or at least wannabe self-driving cars is that they're failing even under simple conditions like highway driving.

There was a nice video of a Tesla driving at low speed constantly pulling the car towards green islands between lanes as if it had a death wish.

Uber famously killed someone while testing and then blamed the humans.

It remains to be seen how Waymo will fare, although having the advertising company that's spying on everyone build self-driving cars seems like parody.

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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by taneq on Thursday July 04, 2019 @03:34AM (#20352419)
Humans fail under simple conditions like highway driving too.

Using Tesla's very clearly level-2 system, or Uber's rubber-bands-and-coathangers science project, to criticize Waymo isn't particularly fair either.

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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by frenchy on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:10AM (#20352589)
From time-to-time, yes, but there's not a lot of AVs out there, and there have been a decent number of accidents.
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