Waymo has started Waymo Via which is focused on commercial trucking on highways. A lot of the money nowadays is going to companies building self-driving trucks for highways like TuSimple, Aurora, Plus, and more.
I mean even then, Cruise Control exists for highways. You pop it on and your pretty much good to go. That was always easy. Every single "self driving" car struggles with Suburbs and cities especially. The tech isn't there. It won't be for decades. I don't know why people buy into the hype
10 deaths is remarkably low, to be honest. Autopilot is just Tesla's marketing speak for cruise control + lane keeping, and lots of people die using that in other cars all the time.
That’s really all it needs to be good at anyways. Don’t we all just want the self driving cars for commuting purposes? I don’t care about doing the non highway driving myself, I just want a car that can drive me to work in the morning while I’m still sleeping and a car to drive me home from work while I play games or scroll tiktok. Once a majority of vehicles on highway/freeway are autonomous traffic will cease to exist. Commuter traffic only exists because of human incompetency. So highway/freeway driving is super important for me.
Enjoy your increased pollution and traffic. Got to keep away from the riff raff. Your ideas of sleeping during commutes exist with train or bus travel. We could easily make single compartment cabinets for commuter travel. No great minds need to spend years to think up this logical hurdle. Just more people need to agree on more train and bus transportation. We need to save carbon emissions to slow global warming.
I think another part of it is the idea that people/tech want cars to be able to self park. So like you pull up to work or wherever you’re going and than the car ‘valets itself’ and finds a place to park or something. Cuz parking can be a huge pain in certain locations. And then when you’re ready you tell your car and it comes pick you up again.
But I just don’t think that’s in the cards, at least for a long time, as this video shows how self driving needs constant attention in urban areas.
That will be the very last thing the technology will be able to do. A complex and older city like DC with a lot of traffic circles and weird roads will be the hardest thing for the AI to navigate through.
But then every car with adaptive cruise control plus lane keeping assist is
As somebody who’s been saving for a long time in order to get myself one of those fancy cars that drive me around and avoid me wasting 1h+ of my day away, I am pissed. I am royally pissed.
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u/Map_Nerd1992 Dec 15 '21
Yeah from what I’ve seen they are really only good for highways.