Cruise is running an autonomous ride hailing service for employees in SF

Post by the_mar » Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 3:15 AM UTC

aetherson wrote: post #94

Retric wrote: post #64

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Waymo (Google) is not that far from level IV. Average U.S. driver has one accident roughly every 165,000 miles and disengagements is not 1:1 with crashing. I suspect drunk drivers would probably be safer handing over control which could make a huge difference. Most interesting is the Disengagements by location. (page 9) https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/946b3502-c959-4e3b... Interstate 0 Freeway 0 Highway 12…

I don't know why you're getting downvotes. Does anyone know off-hand, how much testing have autonomous vehicles had at night (as in, full dark/need to use headlights).

Post by mabbo » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 1:16 AM UTC

JetSpiegel wrote: post #119

mabbo wrote: post #87

For those nay-sayers pointing out the incidents where the cars had to have manual control taken, I think you're missing the forest for the trees. When there's an incident of a car needing a human to take control, what happens next? Cruise will record the incident, and add it to the training data set. Now, the system will learn what it should have done instead and that same kind of incident becomes less likely to occu…

Paraphrasing Tolstoi, every accident is different in its own way. I see that approach as unscalable as current antivirus companies. Making a blacklist of every possible accident condition is as foolish as making a blacklist of every possible harmful Turing-complete program.