Comment by saghm
3 days ago
> The huge advantage they have over people in general is that ideally if they figure this out then it will stay figured out. Then they can slowly role out and watch for the next hitches from new situations.
Sure, because human drivers famously have to be taught with each new generation that driving into six feet of water is a bad plan.
As someone who grew up in a flood-prone area… yeah. Yeah, they do. Sometimes more than once per person.
Have you ever seen transplants to a colder climate trying to navigate icy road conditions?
This is a valid point that self-driving cars solving the issue once and losslessly deploying the solution to it's fleet is a massive improvement over humans each individually applying the "live and learn" strategy.
I have seen plenty of videos online that suggest that this is a true fact.