Comment by tintor
12 hours ago
Such detailed database of fine grained road geometry gets stale very quickly, due to road maintenance and road construction. In US highway lanes are shifted sideways frequently.
12 hours ago
Such detailed database of fine grained road geometry gets stale very quickly, due to road maintenance and road construction. In US highway lanes are shifted sideways frequently.
But are they not continuously updating the road database with their fleet?
For common routes, yes. For getting to John's house, where the path there sometimes floods, no.
So the first waymo to get to this less used road to john’s will not have the data rather than every waymo that travels down a new highway, that then becomes a problem if it rains.
One car with an issue of first coincides with rain on a less used road?
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Earthquake or sinkhole?
I traveled to Austin 3 weeks ago and there were entire highways not on Google Maps.
Apparently they were built in just a few months.
There's some places where Apple still thinks I'm driving through a cornfield even though the development is a few years old, now.
I suppose I could inform them somehow, but it's not worth the bother.
I’m still amazed at the people who claim that Apple Maps is as good as Google Maps nowadays. If you live anywhere where there’s lots of development, it’s definitely not. It’s also terrible when businesses or places of interest move. My wife’s business moved a half mile down the road and a single message to google maps got it moved in a couple days. Apple Maps took about a year with multiple requests and even multiple messages to their special “escalation” email address.
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I don't know how they don't notice thousands of users driving through these "cornfields" at 60mph every day, though. You'd have thought that'd raise some alert?
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Pretty sure they already rely on such a database for positioning, so they already have that problem.
But yes, this wouldn't work for other self-driving systems that don't rely on HD maps.