Comment by feketegy
3 years ago
I've said it before, if you truly want to experience what a real life raod looks like in most of the World, just go to Eastern Europe and create the test models there.
3 years ago
I've said it before, if you truly want to experience what a real life raod looks like in most of the World, just go to Eastern Europe and create the test models there.
And then there is India. Please come here if you want zero infra AND zero adherence to basic rules of driving AND the language and script changes every few hundred kilometers AND all roads have human and non-human users at all hours of the day.
It's odd that it's treated as a matter of pride that, while other cities have AVs today, your own city or nation will take much longer simply because it's full of dangerous drivers breaking the law and infrastructure full of literal roadblocks. It's like claiming that cars are infeasible globally because the roads around you are full of potholes and manure. Congratulations?
Rather than assume this is a death knell for self-driving cars, a more pragmatic view would be other nations will be able to benefit from them while you are left behind. Self-driving cars don't need global saturation to be worthwhile.
It looks like what he meant was if an AI system works well in India, then it has very high probability of working in the rest of the world.
Absolutely agreed. No road markings, speed bumps also not marked. Lack of road signs, potholes, what about non-clearly defined sidewalks, because nature has taken most of the sidewalks' blocks or even overgrown with grass.
It doesn't matter what your 'real' roads look like, the money is a hemisphere and a continent away.
In my experience, roads in Czechia and Slovakia are better than much of (most?) of the US. But I can't speak for Eastern Europe in general. (And I guess those countries would prefer to be called Central Europe anyway...)