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Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

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Re: Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

#31

Cheap criticism: the video starts with (I paraphrase) "This is 1 hour of driving", the last thing I expected after the fade-out/in was to see a man with a weird shirt... and then I notice the video is about 27 minutes long. Edit to add: After that I started watching it, it's actually a video of an impressive AI.

It's played back at twice the speed. Apparent from pedestrians waking twice as fast, and if course, the 2x speed indicator in the upper left.

Re: Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

#33
Yawn. Good lane markings, no rain/snow or other bad weather, perfect road surfaces.

Just like all other self-driving demos. I'd like to see a demo like this on snow covered roads, with no lane markings visible. I think that would tell a lot more about the system's ability to deal with an imperfect world.

Re: Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

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post #6

Watching this, it's so frustrating that we're 95-99% there on autonomous driving.

Possibly for driving in cities and highways on clear days, but we are nowhere close to having autonomous vehicles even match human drivers in 100% of possible/likely driving circumstances and road/weather conditions. That last few percent is the highest hurdle.

Re: Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

#35
post #33

Yawn. Good lane markings, no rain/snow or other bad weather, perfect road surfaces. Just like all other self-driving demos. I'd like to see a demo like this on snow covered roads, with no lane markings visible. I think that would tell a lot more about the system's ability to deal with an imperfect world.

I’m pretty sure I can’t meet that standard.

Re: Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

#36
post #33

Yawn. Good lane markings, no rain/snow or other bad weather, perfect road surfaces. Just like all other self-driving demos. I'd like to see a demo like this on snow covered roads, with no lane markings visible. I think that would tell a lot more about the system's ability to deal with an imperfect world.

> I'd like to see a demo like this on snow covered roads, with no lane markings visible.

But humans can't drive well in those situations either. Why are you asking for something better than humans can do?

Re: Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

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post #33

Yawn. Good lane markings, no rain/snow or other bad weather, perfect road surfaces. Just like all other self-driving demos. I'd like to see a demo like this on snow covered roads, with no lane markings visible. I think that would tell a lot more about the system's ability to deal with an imperfect world.

I’m pretty sure I can’t meet that standard.

Actually I'm sure you'd do just fine. Humans can just pretty effortlessly deduce required information out of numerous clues.

Re: Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

#38
post #10

Is there a way to know that this isn’t done with remote control, other than the company says so?

If you think people are just going to simply lie to you then how do you ever get anything out of reading things on the internet?

Re: Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

#39
post #33

Yawn. Good lane markings, no rain/snow or other bad weather, perfect road surfaces. Just like all other self-driving demos. I'd like to see a demo like this on snow covered roads, with no lane markings visible. I think that would tell a lot more about the system's ability to deal with an imperfect world.

> I'd like to see a demo like this on snow covered roads, with no lane markings visible. But humans can't drive well in those situations either. Why are you asking for something better than humans can do?

Humans can and regularly do so pretty safely.

Ask Canadians, Swedes or any other people living in a location with long winters.

Re: Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

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post #33

Yawn. Good lane markings, no rain/snow or other bad weather, perfect road surfaces. Just like all other self-driving demos. I'd like to see a demo like this on snow covered roads, with no lane markings visible. I think that would tell a lot more about the system's ability to deal with an imperfect world.

> I'd like to see a demo like this on snow covered roads, with no lane markings visible. But humans can't drive well in those situations either. Why are you asking for something better than humans can do?

I was once driving on a road I could not see at all. It was at night, in a blizzard on the road from Denver to Vail. It didn't take long until I was following the two red lights of the bus in front of me. As a human, I knew I could drive safely where the bus had been driving seconds ago. A self-driving car would have... tell me.
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