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75 Minutes of Autonomous Driving with Kyle Vogt and Sam Altman
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this video.Both Cruise and Waymo have remote operators who can direct the cars when they phone home.Here's an example Vogt discusses a bit: https://youtu.be/sliYTyRpRB8?t=202
...of course this brings up many other problems, like network connectivity and inter-city transport, which the companies have as far as I know not commented on. IMO the sensible solution is obviously to just require passengers be able to take over if given plenty of warning, but for whatever reason Cruise isn't doing this.
https://youtu.be/sliYTyRpRB8Obviously this is cherry picked, but you don’t think a car equipped with LIDAR, imaging radar, more cameras, more compute, and temporally dense HD maps that has focused on the same area for its entire existence would perform better than a Tesla?
⬐ BluSynI would expect a strictly mapped system would perform significantly worse in an area like SF, where roads and obstacles frequently change. Human drivers are not rigid, they are adaptable, so building rigid AV systems is doomed to fail outside perfect conditions.⬐ throwawaysdcmanThey're not rigid - they use the map and fall back to onboard system when it's not accurate. That happens plenty of times in the video I linked.
Taxis do have the option. Cruise remote operators "guide" taxis once every 5-10 miles during peak hours and thy expect to do so after public launch https://youtu.be/sliYTyRpRB8?t=212
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sliYTyRpRB8
> Why do people (in particular people without robotics experience) keep assuming this will happen any time soon without any evidence whatsoever?As someone who spends more time cycling than driving, watching videos like this[1] give me more confidence in today’s self-driving technology (assuming good conditions) than in most drivers on the road, even knowing that any internal video is bound to have a dose of propaganda. It’s not entirely even that drivers are to blame; our infrastructure puts cyclists at risk as does the human limitation of only having two eyes.
⬐ blendoIf I saw/heard correctly, it requires human (possibly remote?) intervention once every 5 to 10 miles. So not yet autonomous.Separately, I believe GM is committed to car-to-car communication via DSRC/wi-fi (and some Cadillac models already have this). Do these Cruise vehicles leverage that?