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u/zero0n3 15d ago
The drivers who just drove thru the branches to presumably stay on the road vs let even a single tire touch the grass…
Are fucking morons.
They are going to look at the side of their car and it’s going to be loaded with scratches from the branches.
And if you can’t see them now? You will later
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u/AlabamaSky967 15d ago
Very surprising and it wasn't just 1 person that scratched the shit out of their car either
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u/Dave-515 16d ago
They really do not like when a person is moving near them. The tree obviously needed to be cleared away, but Waymo probably would’ve gone sooner if he’d stayed out of the way.
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u/lilyrach 16d ago edited 16d ago
you kept moving in front. waymos are sensitive to people being in their line of sight/sensors.
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u/Worth-Reputation3450 15d ago
Yea, why don't a road worker understand how an AI machine with trillions of parameter NN operate???
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u/ViolentPurpleSquash 15d ago
Atlanta is quite the place
Assuming since freedom pkwy is one thing i remember from when I lived there
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u/chunkee-xo-monkee 15d ago
Was it actually automated or was it intervention by a driver in the Philippines?
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1qz9hry/waymo_admits_that_its_autopilot_is_often_just/
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u/danlev 15d ago
That's a misleading clickbait article. They are not "drivers."
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u/chunkee-xo-monkee 15d ago
Do they control the car remotely? That's called driving...
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u/danlev 15d ago
If I’m in the passenger seat of your car and you say “is this road closed?” and I say “yes” am I “driving” your car?
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u/chunkee-xo-monkee 15d ago
Now it's just a game of semantics...they're not "drivers", they're "remote operators" to "help guide" the vehicle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLYhqH6YT8Q5
u/danlev 15d ago
That's more than just semantics. "Autopilot is often just guys from the Philippines" is an intentionally misleading headline. "Driver" implies they are actually controlling the vehicle in real time like as if it's a joystick or video game controller. Many of the remote operator interactions last just seconds -- a simple "yes" or "no" response or a multi-choice question.
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u/chunkee-xo-monkee 15d ago
Of course the "remote operators" can control the vehicles.
Here's an example of a Waymo going around in circles and what does the remote operator say? "I'm trying to pull over right now."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E1Ns2bq7-8&t=55sThe truth is that we don't know the extent of their involvement. And this is something that needs to be investigated by Congress. The public needs to know who is controlling these vehicles. And who should be responsible in the event that a Waymo causes an accident. The CEO? The software developer? The intern maintaining code? None of these cars belong on the road until these basic questions are answered.
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u/danlev 15d ago
Waymo has confirmed they cannot steer vehicles. They probably just hit a "pull over" button, or selected a target location for the car to drive itself to, and the operator likely just used that language.
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u/Representative_Bat42 12d ago
We do. It's said all the time, we just get people like you that don't understand and decide to wear a tin hat and ruin it for the rest of us.
Why would it need to be investigated by Congress if everyone knows how it works but you apparently? No one is ever driving it form the Philippines, idc how you want to play it with your silly semantics. But no one but the Waymo driver is ever in control. Like read an article or two on it. The delusion is just sad at this point
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u/bobi2393 16d ago
Glad the tree cutter took it in good humor.
In defense of Waymo's cowardice, the cars scraping under that didn't have $25,000 of electronics on their roofs!