in Canada, basically if it’s not winter (hard to drive because of conditions and almost complete lack of visibility of the road and signs), it’s road construction time…
You’ll note that Waymo is really only launched in places that tend to have mostly pleasant weather most of the time, because the tech is relatively new (but probably already much better than human drivers most of the time - humans are broadly awful at driving so that doesn’t take much) and they don’t want to try it against the much more difficult conditions in many places yet.
100% and to be fair, that’s how you develop the tech properly. My pet peeve is when they pass the “first hurdle” (overly simplifying here) and then call it “fully autonomous driving”
Also, I cannot imagine a real autonomous driver would be worse than humans because, as you say, humans are broadly awful at driving. However, since there is ZERO accountability with any of these companies in the USA, I need to see some independently ran studies and not just the propaganda the companies peddle and from which their bottom line depends
You’ll note that Waymo is really only launched in places that tend to have mostly pleasant weather most of the time, because the tech is relatively new (but probably already much better than human drivers most of the time - humans are broadly awful at driving so that doesn’t take much) and they don’t want to try it against the much more difficult conditions in many places yet.
100% and to be fair, that’s how you develop the tech properly. My pet peeve is when they pass the “first hurdle” (overly simplifying here) and then call it “fully autonomous driving”
Also, I cannot imagine a real autonomous driver would be worse than humans because, as you say, humans are broadly awful at driving. However, since there is ZERO accountability with any of these companies in the USA, I need to see some independently ran studies and not just the propaganda the companies peddle and from which their bottom line depends