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Waymo Reaches 150k Autonomous Rides Per Week Milestone While Tesla FSD Lags Behind (futurism.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"While Waymo is now providing over 150,000 autonomous rides every week, Tesla still has a long way to go until its controversial "Full Self-Driving" software is ready for the EV maker's competing robotaxi service.

Just this week, a Tesla driver plowed through a deer without even a hint of slowing down with the $8,000 add-on feature turned on, and another smashed into someone else's car when its owner employed its Summon feature."....

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And then the car mistook the side of a white semi for the sky and plowed full speed into the semi, decapitating the driver. These systems see, but don't really understand what they see.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Self driving doesn't need to be perfect it only needs to be better than humans.

Examples like this are kind of pointless because humans are incredibly bad drivers statistically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm pretty sure we're a human would not have made that mistake though so it's already not better than humans.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Human eyes are far better than cameras at real time adaptation to varied lighting conditions though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

And we can predict what will happen pretty well and adapt to the situation dynamically. Our only weakness is that we do stupid shit like drunk driving, speeding and not paying attention.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It needs to be quite a bit better than humans to actually take off. The difference between a person driving and anything else is who is in control, and therefore to blame. Just being statistically better than the average person isn’t good enough, imho.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I still think the technology would be getting pushed forward even if it was only slightly better than humans. However it is far safer than humans which is why its growing rapidly in application.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

However humans may also be getting better via self driving tools such as radar cruise control. So you’d need to compare to a human with access to these tools.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Thats a good point. I cant wait for that stuff to become more widely available so we can see how that impacts things.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

An order of magnitude better would give trust. Slightly better doesn´t convince people.