The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated

Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by acdha on Saturday June 03, 2023 @09:36PM (#36182182)

You could do extensive closed-course testing with realistic conditions and then pay to have human drivers watching & ready to take over at any time. The problem is that this costs money and takes time, and Tesla was hoping not to do either.

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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by mensetmanusman on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:58AM (#36184916)

Closed course testing to compare with humans would require about 800,000,000 miles of testing (10x length of average travel between fatalities). And that would just be for one version, every update would require that, and updates are about 100x internal version changes per year depending on how you count additional ML annealing.

That's about 80B test miles per year at about a capital cost of $0.50 per mile.

For a company that, say, spends ~10% on R&D, it would require the company be about a trillion dollars, which only Apple, etc. have reached.

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