Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'

Re:Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never ... by axguscbklp on Saturday January 18, 2020 @08:29PM (#22088708)

If you have to modify the environment to make it easier for the cars, then you haven't achieved fully self-driving technology.

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Re:Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never ... by colordrops on Saturday January 18, 2020 @10:52PM (#22089331)

So unless cars can navigate without roads then they are not self driving?

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Re:Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never ... by axguscbklp on Saturday January 18, 2020 @11:01PM (#22089380)

Navigating off-road might actually be easier in practice for AI than navigating on roads, since off-road there are generally many fewer other cars to deal with.

As a rough rule of thumb, I'll call a car fully self-driving if, without any changes having been made to the road system to accomodate self-driving cars, I feel comfortable getting in the back seat, telling it to drive me to a certain house in a city a few hundred miles away, and falling asleep.

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