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Waymo demonstrates its limits in driverless tech. Gets stumped by road construction

Posted by TWuG May 14 '21, 06:42

They rely heavily on premapping and if reality fails to match its maps...

At least it stopped instead of driving through the construction area.

https://twitter.com/alex_avoigt/status/1393149539322847233?s=19 (twitter.com)

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Shouldn't there be a person in the driver's seat so that a human can take over in these types of situations? -- nm - Krusty May 14, 06:51 4
- Waymo has permission to operate sans driver in a couple locations. They eventually sent a driver to sort this trip out. - TWuG May 14, 07:13 3
  - That seems really dangerous and a bad idea with the technology still in its infancy. -- nm - Krusty May 14, 07:17 2
    - Yes and yes. But that's how we get things like lightbulbs and airplanes. -- nm - IAmQale May 14, 07:31
    - The issue is that it can only react to changes by stopping. It's super cautious, which is great, but not exactly - TWuG May 14, 07:30

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