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Re:Robotaxis 'do not belong in the city of Los Angeles,' law... by Etheryte on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:17AM (#38038046)
Not really, hectic traffic and nonexistent roads aren't a superset of organized traffic and good roads. If you take a human driver from a country with hectic traffic and put them in one with organized traffic they'll struggle and vice versa, the same would hold here. Being skilled in one doesn't really help you out in the other.
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Re:Robotaxis 'do not belong in the city of Los Angeles,' law... by djoldman on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:26AM (#38038145)
They're both a superset of the problem space: safely navigate from A to B.

And broadly speaking, with more varied training data you can achieve better out of sample results.

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Re:Robotaxis 'do not belong in the city of Los Angeles,' law... by edgyquant on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:28AM (#38038169)
This sounds like your opinion and doesn’t seem accurate to me at all.
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Re:Robotaxis 'do not belong in the city of Los Angeles,' law... by leoedin on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:47AM (#38038378)
I think the parent is right. Every country has different traffic laws anyway - but driving in a developing country is often fundamentally different.

In Vietnam the effective priority of vehicles is "biggest first". A neural net trained in that environment won't be very useful in the UK, where priority is defined by road markings and street signs.

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