Comment by dilap
1 day ago
Isn't Tesla already there?
I took a fully-autonomyous Cybercab to a coffee shop yesterday; it doesn't even have a steering wheel. It was just a short drive, but it handled various complications (a garbage truck, double-parked cars, construction, unpainted speed bumps) with aplomb. The driving felt extremely smooth and human-like (better, in my experience, than Waymo, which can still be a bit jerky).
> Isn't Tesla already there?
Those operate in constrained areas of a few cities though - with a control room, that's a long way from telling your car to drive across state unattended.
Do you know how much of the drive and handling those complications was actually fully autonomous vs how much (or what key points) were handled from the remote control room by a human?
I'm not sure how you would tell, but that is a critical question for scaling and true autonomy.
Yup the question is scale - which reflects economics - and diversity of conditions.
People underestimate how adaptable and efficient humans are.