Are people on HN really that cynical to say that autonomous logic can't navigate a highway?
These trucks are gonna be used for depot to depot transfers with human drivers taking over for urban / last mile destinations.
These trucks are gonna be used for depot to depot transfers with human drivers taking over for urban / last mile destinations.
How about, before you approve a bill for human-less autonomous driving, you first use the software with human oversight until the software is old.
I don't really understand what you want here. If you claim that a person in one of these vehicles will increase safety I am sceptical. Concentration falls off drastically when you're not actively driving.
Edit: after a quick Google, Embark Trucks[1] claims that they are the first to have driven 100k miles. That's a factor of 10 less than what Waymo claims to have driven. And there will be smaller outfits that will want to cut corners to get a piece of the pie.
Anyways, quite a difference. I’m not sure where the threshold should be set for proving safety. I recall the number for provable safety being something like 20bn+ miles, so no one is close if it’s set there.