Waymo is opening its driverless service to more people in Phoenix

Re:Waymo is opening its driverless service to more people in... by holidayacct on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:23PM (#24721433)

I know everyone loves the idea of self-driving cars but the reality of self-driving cars is really ugly. We need repetitions driving vehicles in order to operate them effectively. If you don't have enough repetitions driving a vehicle when something goes wrong you're not going to be able to operate the vehicle at all.

Furthermore, I'm skeptical that driverless vehicles can factor in all the ways in which someone might maliciously cause accidents or damage to these vehicles. I want to see what happens when someone figures out how to provide false input to the sensors on the vehicle.

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Re:Waymo is opening its driverless service to more people in... by twmahna on Thursday October 08, 2020 @02:11PM (#24721987)

>> I'm skeptical that driverless vehicles can factor in all the ways in which someone might maliciously cause accidents or damage to these vehicles

You're probably right, but as long as it doesn't happen frequently and there's no way to mislead sensors en masse, it's not a big deal.

There are malicious ways to cause accidents with current-day technologies also. e.g. Park a car in front of a train, fly a drone into a plane, etc.

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Re:Waymo is opening its driverless service to more people in... by angryasian on Thursday October 08, 2020 @02:59PM (#24722495)

I don't buy this repetitions argument at all. A computer and machine learning go through billions of driving scenarios more than any human could if the data is available.

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Re:Waymo is opening its driverless service to more people in... by leetcrew on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:53PM (#24723827)

I think they are worried about driving skill atrophying among the human population if they ride exclusively in FSD vehicles.

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