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Comment by paul7986 | Hacker News Reader

Robot cars will take decades of slow progress to be realized otherwise tons of their drivers and innocent drivers will perish.

Too many bought what used car salesman (his shtick) Elon Musk sold us and still tries to.

Ford and others bought his sales pitch and followed him then realized wait this used car salesman is all talk/hubris

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Idk, the tech seems to be accelerating rapidly to me. Where were we 5 years ago?

Probably strugglins with zipper merges, unprotected turns, and inclement weather…

… so same

Not to say challenges don’t remain, but it’s undeniable the technology has come a long way in the last few years. https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=318&v=aj8TRtr64xQ

You fell for the boondoggle. Waymo has a very narrow set of routes you can take. They collect ultra HD maps for those routes in SF which has a completely unsustainable human labor cost. It doesn’t scale to “drive me on any road”. Waymo is localized-only driving funded at a major loss by a search ads monopoly.

Cruise does the same, just with VC money (and weird low-traffic hours of operation).

They have not solved driving in the generic sense and they are fooling you (and investors)

I’m not hating, there is of course progress being made. It’s a tough problem, but I would not call it “come a long way”.

https://twitter.com/irapolis/status/1631926001700835328?s=20

And https://sfstandard.com/community/stalled-waymo-creates-traff...

How long has Waymo been around .. almost 20 years.....

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