Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars

Re:Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars by Cactus2018 on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:56PM (#24623455)

>Indeed amazing because I know employees at Tesla who take it home on autopilot in the freeway! It’s also very unsafe ans I dot believe camera only is the way to go, but at least it can drive for more than a mile.

Google/Waymo did a pilot - letting employees commute - and canceled because the system was too good and staff stopped paying attention.

This is a clip, there was a longer clip and description in a Waymo CEO speech in the past year or two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ePWBBrWSzo

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Re:Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars by koheripbal on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:42AM (#24626073)

The problem isn't that it's "so good", it's that it's "usually perfect".

Most California weather driving is very mundane and boring. ...but the moment you throw an outside variable into the mix - the computer cannot identify objects, and therefore cannot predict outcomes.

We're still teaching them to recognize Stop signs. How are they supposed to distinguish between a floating plastic bag and a 5 year old child?

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Re:Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars by Cactus2018 on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:55PM (#24630904)

Description and clip at about 4 minutes https://youtu.be/qJiFKxvJlhY?t=243

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