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Re:Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco by vlunkr on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @11:45AM (#30856771)
There's this great compilation video on youtube of Elon Musk promising fully autonomous cars "next year" since 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7oZ-AQszEI Sorry for the dumb clickbait title.
Re:Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco by judge2020 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @11:52AM (#30856861)
Those are true/eventually did happen up until 2018

2014 - 90% capable of autopilot, for sure highway travel

2015 - autonomous driving for highways and relatively simple roads

2016 - S/X can drive autonomously with greater safety than a person - generally true, it still messes up for human-correctable situations but in general helps more than it hurts in terms of "crashes where autopilot was in control during impact or within 5 seconds of impact"[0]

2018 - incorrectly predicted - self driving will be 100-200% safer than a person by next year (this talking about their full self driving thing that will do turns and stop signs and whatnot)

0: https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

Re:Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco by dham on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @04:10PM (#30860193)
People, for some reason, still confuse AutoPilot (literally just ACC) and Full Self Driving. I guess the creator of the video doesn't know the difference either. The naming is really bad though.