Comment by toxik
10 hours ago
I talked to a guy who did his doctoral degree on quantum computing and he was not worried at all. In fact he thought it was wildly overhyped, and like cold fusion, self driving cars, or string theory, always just around the corner. Just give us five more years and another grant, please.
Meanwhile Waymo has 200 million autonomous miles under its belt.
Waymo had millions in 2015.
Waymo doesn't seem to know it.
https://waymo.com/research/safety-performance-of-the-waymo-r...
> Waymo’s rider-only ride-hailing operations reached its first one million rider-only miles on January 21, 2023
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N=1 sample size.
I talked to another guy with the same degree in the same field and he was concerned.
Scott used to be that guy.