A driverless car in San Francisco drove right into wet concrete and got stuck after seemingly mistaking it for a regular road: ‘It ain’t got a brain’ / The site had been marked off with constructio…::The site had been marked off with construction cones and workers stood with flags at each end of the block, according to city officials.
It’s a software update away from getting better. Humans will be forever a risk to other humans when driving. I’m not saying it’s good yet, but people in 2020 thought “driverless cars will be forever 5 years away”
Yet here we are, talking about how bad they are. That’s an improvement from only limited testing a few short years ago
No, people in 2014 kept saying driverless cars will be 5 years away. And they kept pushing “no, wait, in 5 more years”. It’s 2023, and they still say it’s “5 more years”, or they pretend that it’s already here and these cars have no problems whatsoever.
Actual, real, Level 5 automated driving is not here and will take at least 20 years to get there. Probably 50 years, realistically. What Cruise is doing is the same thing Elon Musk does with Tesla’s: Call it a “self-driving car” when it’s anything but.
These cars can follow lines and pretend to drive. They can’t actually drive. They can’t handle any of the edge cases. Their handlers completely ignore all of the accidents and mistakes they make on a daily basis. They brush aside the fatalities, and blame it on everything else except themselves, practicing a healthy dose of whataboutism when they compare their mistakes to humans.
What do you mean? If they are 5 years away, what got stuck?
The 80/20 rule. The 20% of driving is the part that actually fucking matters.