Comment by eraGq
10 hours ago
Any human can distinguish wet pavement from a flooded street. Some voluntarily drive into the flooded street.
And that is the difference. In a Waymo you are a prisoner, in your own car you can turn around.
10 hours ago
Any human can distinguish wet pavement from a flooded street. Some voluntarily drive into the flooded street.
And that is the difference. In a Waymo you are a prisoner, in your own car you can turn around.
I rode my motorcycle into a hole that almost swallowed the front tyre entirely in rural Australia. That hole had just been a slight depression that collected water the last time I rode through it, and there was no visual indication that it was now deeper.
Any human can't necessarily tell the difference between an inch of water, which is perfectly safe to drive on (if slow enough that you don't hydroplane), and a flooded street. They can tell the difference between an inch of water and wet pavement, though.
This is the naive "if you can't stop you're following too close" circular definition based take. Makes for good rightthink points on reddit and communities of similar quality membership but you're not actually gonna build anything useful thinking like that.
In order to drive reasonably humans need to drive through water that is 6-12in deep on occasion. That's just how it is. Near me it's whenever the storm drain at the bottom of the hill clogs.
Why do you ignore the context (humans cannot distinguish?). If what you say is true, Waymos are useless in your areas. Thank you for confirming this!
Humans can distinguish well enough to know that it's not a "normal puddle amount" of water on the road and slow down.