Building maps for a self-driving car

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21 points·wollstonecraft··8 comments

This is the fundamental weakness of Google's system. It expects every road it drives on to be precisely mapped ahead of time, to the detail of knowing how many centimeters high the curb is. This was the reason their cars were described as impractical on a nationwide scale two years ago, and today's article confirms that it remains so today.

"That means we don’t have to rely on GPS technology, or a single point of data such as lane markings, to navigate the streets."

GPS accuracy is terrible, and I can only imagine that lane markings (where they even exist) are only slightly better. Even Tesla uses knowledge from other cars that drove through an area to refine its internal map.

Article is from nine months ago, actually. You have something negative to say on literally every Google-related article that appears on HN, but every one I've seen commits some factual or logical error. Why don't you give it a rest for a while?

He seems to be in a Crusade against Google.

Please refrain from personal attacks on HN. (cc: dang, if he gets magically tagged or something, I can't flag comments)

Feel free to attack me on Twitter or Reddit or something.

Which personal attacks?

It is just a logical conclusion reading your comment history.

Article was posted two hours ago on an account created today. So, while I may have missed it specifying it's a repost, it clearly remains accurate if they reposted it today.

Maybe you should check for your own logical errors before criticizing others?

There's supposedly 45,000 Uber and Lyft drivers registered in San Fransisco. If Waymo or any other Robotaxi network were operating on that scale in the Bay area, I think that having accurate and frequently updated maps would to be an asset.

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