Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel • Hacker News Board

Re: Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel

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Post by Animats » Fri, Nov 10, 2017, 7:30 PM UTC

gok wrote: post #617

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It's quite possible to compare them. Google has never done anything like this.[1] This is a Tesla vehicle on "autopilot" crashing into a street sweeper without even slowing down. It's on an expressway, where Tesla's "autopilot" is supposed to work. The street sweeper is big, partly blocking the lane. The driver trusted Tesla's "autopilot" to do something reasonable. It didn't. The driver was killed. That blood is on…

The details of that video are fuzzy at best. The crash happened 8 months before it was reported in western media, before Tesla made any announcements about fully self driving systems. It's not even entirely clear Auto Pilot was involved. Still, there have been confirmed accidents involving Auto Pilot. That's not to say it hasn't been acting as designed. It is currently a system to help drivers when they make a mistak…

Excuses, excuses. Waymo's system regularly demonstrates its ability to navigate around unexpected obstacles. Tesla just has "lane changing", as if roads were railroad tracks.

Re: Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel

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Post by ggggtez » Fri, Nov 10, 2017, 8:33 PM UTC

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So, if I crash into your car and drive away, are you saying you wouldn't write down my license plate or try to take a picture of my car? Why would a private company be any different than a private citizen? Of course they would take photos of you committing a crime against them...

im saying that I am PD and I want to run a random search for X lic plate and I access the autonomous nodes driving all the freeways for lic X and I see through cams and sensors that 'ggggtez' hasnt yet put his new sticker on his car - via the auto car nodes... and so I track him with these sensors and pull him over to give him a tiket. the shit was paid, his sticker was in the mail, but he didnt get/apply it yet - bu…

>I track him with these sensors

>fuck you, ggggtz

>cyber-dystopia

>I already got FUCKING SUED

Sam, if you're reading this, you've been in a coma for almost 30 years. We're trying a new technique. Please wake up.

Re: Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel

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Post by jacksmith21006 » Mon, Nov 13, 2017, 2:27 PM UTC

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Do not agree. Habits will change as it will be cheap. My kids already are very, very comfortable using Uber where me and my wife are like let's take our car.

Are your kids paying for Uber out of their own pocket? If not, then their opinion about the financial side is moot. My kids love to be chaeuffered about by me.

Kids with me I pay. Kids often without me and they pay. Well mostly. I do have 8 kids and some are better about this.

Re: Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel

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Post by eru » Mon, Nov 13, 2017, 5:34 PM UTC

falcolas wrote: post #563

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> Said service zones wouldn't include anyplace where increased crime is a concern. What? Is someone going to try to steal a car without a steering wheel?

How about forcing the car to stop and rob the occupants? Or stripping the car of all those expensive electronic components?

The electronics would be locked down. You can't even steal a phone these days and use it without the owner's password.