Comment by Salgat
3 years ago
Aren't Waymo and Cruise constrained to specially tailored cities? Autonomous driving that can be activated literally anywhere in the country is far more impressive, even if it has cases where it doesn't perform as well.
3 years ago
Aren't Waymo and Cruise constrained to specially tailored cities? Autonomous driving that can be activated literally anywhere in the country is far more impressive, even if it has cases where it doesn't perform as well.
To me actual driverless cars are more impressive than FSD which doesn't allow me to take my hands off the wheel, yes.
They are driverless but have a remote operator that can jump in at any time. Strictly speaking driverless cars are not actually hard to make. As long as you have a good data connection you can remote drive a car just fine.
I have a double friends with FSD that rarely use it because it "scares [them]" by occasionally making dangerous decisions. Surely Waymo or Cruise could launch anywhere, but they make the conscious choice not to so they avoid this exact problem.
The more far flung reaches are are served well by traditional vehicles and the people are trained to use driving machines since most of the workers are agricultural. The city centers and suburbs are a big enough win even if it isn't as magical as taking a self driving trip from a small cottage in northern Vermont all the way to a campsite up in Big Sur.
I'm in Upstate New York and despite my penchant for gardening, I'm hardly an agricultural worker. Any urban-geofenced product is useless to me and the half a million folks in the greater capitol area and nearby counties aside from the tricity residents. Which is at least 50% of the folks. Hardly a passing grade, let alone big win.