Comment by cesarb
7 hours ago
That's the promise of self-driving cars.
Every time an issue is found, no matter how minor, it's fixed and updated everywhere. From now on, every car of that model (and future models, and related models) will no longer have that problem. Several passes of that improvement cycle, and self-driving cars become safer (and more efficient/comfortable/etc) than human drivers. At least, that's how it's supposed to work.
If you've ever built software, you'll know that regressions are all too common. Especially when AI/ML is involved.
It's likely they patch this and cause 2 other bugs in the process.
So underappreciated. The article writes as if its some kind of sign that waymos just aren't ready. But human drivers are not improving at all.