I think its certainly a matter of when, not if robo-cars are capable of driving as good as/better than human. Sooner, rather than later too. That said, totally agree.
SF seems like the worst place to pilot this, for so many reasons.
Definitely a matter of when, but that’s also the case for nuclear fusion. Trouble is these perennial 5-10 year away things seem to always be later than we expect.
I can't speak to Cruise, but I strongly believe Musk set Tesla back a decade or more with his demand to use only video cameras.
We have lidar, infrared lasers, polarized ultraviolent imaging, multi-microphone 3D audio sensing, triangulating RF antennas. Why limit yourself to the limits of human perception?
I’ve heard that lidar is somewhat unfavorable because it’s so susceptible to becoming useless due to misalignments from something as simple as a pothole. Radar and other options though are absolutely worth using, I think musk is just trying to cut costs. Their S/X are using radar with the new FSD HW4
It’s probably the best from their training standpoint. The city is quite small relative to others and their only hope is to essentially memorize San Francisco in the neural networks. IMO you could not take a cruise and drop it into any other city and have it work.
But you still think that anytime you drive you make the decision to sit in a murder machine and no matter what the reason is any accident is your fault and you should go to prison? even if the breaks fail due etc
SF seems like the worst place to pilot this, for so many reasons.