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Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months by randyrand on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @08:52PM (#23162114)
They do get labeling too. Their current beta requires user confirmation for every vehicle change in motion.
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Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months by gizmondo on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:15PM (#23162306)
You mean the label is a boolean "is this action reasonable"? That sounds worse than just recording all driver's input (which itself is useless afaik).
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Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months by randyrand on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @02:00PM (#23169707)
they record that too if you deny the confirmation.

So in failure cases, they record what a human would have done.

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Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months by scep12 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:18PM (#23162721)
That data isn't as useful as you're implying.
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Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months by RC_ITR on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @11:31PM (#23163193)
And ignores the fact that google already has images of millions of miles of road across multiple years / weather conditions AND the worlds largest real-time automobile movement database for that little app the call “maps”.
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