Comment by asdff
4 days ago
It seems waymo's always fall apart when encountering something that wouldn't be in the training set. Such as a christmas parade:
4 days ago
It seems waymo's always fall apart when encountering something that wouldn't be in the training set. Such as a christmas parade:
I don't understand how these cars keep getting stalled for half an hour or something. Surely there must be a team of teleoperators ready to jump in at any time?
The power outage probably knocked out the infra those operators needed to control the cars.
"the infra" is cell phone data coverage though. Which was probably congested by all the city residents using theirs instead of their wifi which was down. Would be fascinating to see just how much Internet traffic flows changed during the outage.
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True but the comment I replied to mentions a different case where a Waymo got stuck for half an hour at a parade.
Until AVs can deal with OOD scenarios, they should not be on the road.
Autonomous vehicles should be on the road iff they reduce overall incidents/deaths. Failure to deal with an out-of-distribution scenario would count against this, but may be rare enough to not significantly affect the average.