Comment by Workaccount2
6 hours ago
Any fool could have seen self driving cars coming in 2022. But that didn't happen. And still hasn't happened. But if it did happen, it would be easy to say:
"Any fool could have seen this coming in 2012 if they were paying attention to vision model improvements"
Hindsight is 20/20.
We definitely have self driving cars, people just want to move the goal posts constantly.
Everyone who lives in the show belt understands that unless a self driving car can navigate icy, snow-covered roads better than humans can, it's a non-starter. And the car can't just "pull over because it's too dangerous" that doesn't work at all.
That works fine. Self driving doesn’t need to be everything for all conditions everywhere.
Give me reliable and safe self driving for Interstate highways in moderate to good weather conditions and I would be very happy. Get better incrementally from there.
I live solidly in the snow belt.
Autopilot for planes works in this manner too. Theoretically a modern airliner could autofly takeoff to landing entirely autonomously at this point, but they do not. They decrease pilot workload.
If you want the full robotaxi panacea everywhere at all times in all conditions? Sure. None of us are likely to see that in our lifetime.
Btw that’s basically already here with http://comma.ai.