Comment by antonvs
7 months ago
You're confusing "exist" with "viable".
When someone talks about "having" self-driving cars next year, they're not talking about what are essentially pilot programs.
7 months ago
You're confusing "exist" with "viable".
When someone talks about "having" self-driving cars next year, they're not talking about what are essentially pilot programs.
I don't think that is a reasonable generalisation. A lot of people would have been talking about the first person to take a real trip in a car that drives itself. A record that is in the past.
Not to mention that HN gets really tetchy about achieving specifically SAE Level 6 when in practice some pretty basic driver assist tools are probably closer to what people meant. It reminds me of a gentlemen I ran into who was convinced that the OpenAI DoTA bot with a >99% win rate couldn't really be said to be playing the game. If someone can take their hands off the wheel for 10 minutes we're there in a common language sense; the human in the car isn't actively in control.
Good point. On the "exist" interpretation, we've "had" flying cars for several decades.