Would be more impressed with a drive from Lombard and Van Ness to Telegraph Hill.
Cruise Shows Off Level 4 Skills in SF, Passing Uber and Maybe Waymo
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#102I said it before and I'll say it again:
You might not be able to turn an aircraft carrier on a dime but when you do you've got an aircraft carrier.
GM (and the other automotive manufacturers for that matter) decided they wanted in on self driving and electric vehicles, had a few meetings, wrote a few checks and a few years later look at the result. Are Google and Tesla going to reply with similar videos?
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> Worth mentioning, 30 seconds would feel like an eternity inside a car. Would it, when the car is driving for you and you're free to putter about with a phone or laptop or book? I always figured that this would be one of the greatest benefits of autonomous vehicles - perhaps the car isn't as aggressive as the human it's driving it would be, or as quick to get "unstuck", but the human won't care too much because the…
I think you're completely right from a rational perspective, but I've definitely sat in the back of an Uber wishing the guy would drive more aggressively since I was running late.
The solution is simple. Screen a drag race across the interior windows of a self-driving car.
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#104It looks like the car doesn't travel in a straight line (it wobbles) because it's trying avoid parked cars.
Probably for the best. Someone could always open up a car door unexpectedly. I imagine it would be very hard for a driving algorithm to read social cues and notice drivers getting in/out of cars.
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#105I said it before and I'll say it again: You might not be able to turn an aircraft carrier on a dime but when you do you've got an aircraft carrier. GM (and the other automotive manufacturers for that matter) decided they wanted in on self driving and electric vehicles, had a few meetings, wrote a few checks and a few years later look at the result. Are Google and Tesla going to reply with similar videos?
> You might not be able to turn an aircraft carrier on a dime but when you do you've got an aircraft carrier.
I'm not sure what this means.
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#106Pigeons and human have a pact. You continue and they will fly away in the last second. Cars don't need to stop for pigeons. https://youtu.be/xPCZtrac-Ss
I hope you're kidding. In an area where they had just opened a freeway segment for my commute, my car had a couple of "reverse bird strikes" -- the car was safe but the fate of the bird was unknown -- at the beginning of the new segment. It's possible the birds weren't pigeons.
He was kidding. It's from Seinfeld.
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#107Each time the Cruise starts from a stop light, it's too slow. Every time ... cars pass it, and dive into its lane (a typical reaction to slow moving vehicles). Still, nice accomplishment.
This is a pro, not a con. Slamming on the accelerator is a bad behavior that self driving cars will be correcting.
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#108Watching this video what struck me most was how overbuilt almost all the streets were - they're designed for high speeds and devote essentially all the space to cars. We know how to get at least a 3x reduction in fatalities, as the Netherlands has done, with engineering changes that make human drivers less likely to make mistakes and make their mistakes less costly.
Really? The narrow downtown San Francisco streets? You should check out a suburb sometime.
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#109Random side thought: How do I signal in an ambiguous situation to the car on who's going first. Like Super high traffic and I want to merge in front of them or let them go first? Currently I do that with a wave. Which is super effective on a motorcycle as people almost always say "sure we can squeeze you in here" which lets me get places way faster.
I've read that insurance people strongly suggest to never wave: it's one of the top things that seems to occur during accidents. It's hard to distinguish from someone "waving you on" versus someone "waving to say thanks for letting me go". Trusting anyone else to check for oncoming traffic is a terrible idea. It's really easy to focus on the wave-giver and not check the rest of the traffic. And even if you are good a…
Pre-cell phone while driving ban, my roommate turned left to a woman who waved him through, and was hit by her. She told the cop she didn't wave him through, but was gesturing to the person on the other end while talking on her phone. He was ruled at fault.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Chicago and Detroit don't get all that much snow. (Southern Michigan gets quite a lot of snow. Prevailing winds are westerly so lots of lake effect. Grand Rapids gets almost 2x the snow that Detroit gets. Cleveland also gets more snow than Detroit, lake effect from Erie)
Once they can traverse Chicago or Detroit in the winter safely then they can try Grand Rapids or Buffalo. For the record in East Lansing we get a lot more snow than Detroit but we're pikers compared to say Holland or Grand Haven.
I drove in Grand Rapids and Chicago today. I'd take bad weather in GR than here at home any time. More snow more often doesn't mean more difficult to drive, more population and smaller streets here make it way riskier. Ice and sliding are easy problems to account for in code, bad manners are not.