Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
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Re: Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
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Re: Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
#3Maybe the solution is to put in more billions. Every fad creates jobs.
Re: Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
#4If they only would use lidar. Oh wait…
Re: Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
#5Snark aside, there will probably always be conditions in which waymo is not the right answer. Are they going to do hurricane evacuation? I think removing the driver just necessitates this.
Re: Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
#6I wonder how much of this is trouble perceiving water depth vs integrating that understanding into the larger driver model without creating regressions elsewhere.
Re: Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
#7Snark aside, there will probably always be conditions in which waymo is not the right answer. Are they going to do hurricane evacuation? I think removing the driver just necessitates this.
Evacuation is a use case in my mind. Having a fleet of shuttles on command to move people in preparation of a hurricane would be a benefit. They would obviously need to put weather limitations during actual storms because no one should be driving in a hurricane.
Re: Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
#8Snark aside, there will probably always be conditions in which waymo is not the right answer. Are they going to do hurricane evacuation? I think removing the driver just necessitates this.
While this is going to be an overly optimistic scenario: Imagine how smooth a hurricane evacuation would go if _everyone_ used a self-driving car to do the evacuation - atleast there might be less gridlock than there is during any usual hurricane evacuations. And assuming the self driving cars don't do something stupid that causes every car behind it to essentially lock up and stop moving
That said, I know a scenario like that would never happen, probably for the best.
Re: Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
#9I assumed they went to Miami to develop their foul weather capabilities. It's still pretty early.
Re: Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
#10Self driving will never handle all corner cases until they essentially have a frontal cortex. They probably need something like an LLM to help with very high level abstract situations, e.g. avoiding a hurricane like someone else mentioned in this thread.