Drive it up to Wyoming and then drive it through the Rockies. A human being can do that. Do you think that any self driving car, after more than a decade spent in development, could handle that?
That's not really a question that proves anything. There could be a number of reasons for why it's not universal that have nothing to do with how effectively it can self-drive.
Because a self driving car can't handle snowy roads. Because a self driving car can't handle merging onto the BQE. No company could even dream of selling a vehicle marketed as completely autonomous because when people actually tried to exercise that capability they would end up killing themselves and a bunch of other people.
Why would a completely autonomous vehicle try to operate when it didnтАЩt have enough information to do so safely? If there is bird shit on the camera itтАЩs going to ask you to clean it. ItтАЩs not going to say, тАЬI canтАЩt see but IтАЩll try to drive anyway.тАЭ
No, you said it drove you 95% home from the beach. That might be good enough for a bus on an easy fixed route, and you can choose to call your car self-driving if you want. But for most of us, it's not 'self driving' unless it can drive itself 100% of the time.
And no one is remotely close to that, because the last 1% of cases is orders of magnitude harder than the first 99%. Beyond that lies the need to drive enough like humans to avoid causing accidents by surprising human drivers.
So do you seriously think you'll be able to buy a fully self driving car in, for example, the next decade?
I have a self driving car. As I said it drove us all home from the beach.
Nope.
Drive it up to Wyoming and then drive it through the Rockies. A human being can do that. Do you think that any self driving car, after more than a decade spent in development, could handle that?
It can easily handle that, it even has the transmission downshift so it doesnтАЩt overheat the brakes when heading down from a mountain pass.
If it's that great then how is it that every car on the market isn't self driving?
That's not really a question that proves anything. There could be a number of reasons for why it's not universal that have nothing to do with how effectively it can self-drive.
Here's my answer:
Because a self driving car can't handle snowy roads. Because a self driving car can't handle merging onto the BQE. No company could even dream of selling a vehicle marketed as completely autonomous because when people actually tried to exercise that capability they would end up killing themselves and a bunch of other people.
Why would a completely autonomous vehicle try to operate when it didnтАЩt have enough information to do so safely? If there is bird shit on the camera itтАЩs going to ask you to clean it. ItтАЩs not going to say, тАЬI canтАЩt see but IтАЩll try to drive anyway.тАЭ
Because no matter how much you clean the lens has no effect on its ability to drive on snowy roads, which is to say that it can't.
"Autonomous" cars can't do everything that an average human being can do, end of story.
ThatтАЩs going to be a problem on a freeway.
No, you said it drove you 95% home from the beach. That might be good enough for a bus on an easy fixed route, and you can choose to call your car self-driving if you want. But for most of us, it's not 'self driving' unless it can drive itself 100% of the time.
And no one is remotely close to that, because the last 1% of cases is orders of magnitude harder than the first 99%. Beyond that lies the need to drive enough like humans to avoid causing accidents by surprising human drivers.