Waymo may have outlasted GM's Cruise to lead the U.S. market but Elon Musk's Tesla and Amazon's Zoox are working to catch up.
  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I wouldn’t count on Tesla getting anything working properly to market any time soon.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I’m not impressed until it can legally drive while it is snowing.

    Driving in mostly hot regions on predefined paths is not that impressive.

    But you know what fully automated system you could make in any weather? Trains.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      21 days ago

      I can’t take a train almost anywhere I drive. Think they’ll open a spur to:

      • The swamp down the road
      • My camp in BFE
      • Anywhere on the local creeks and rivers

      And can I bring a truck bed full of kayaks and gear? Oh, I also haul home shitloads of trash I find. Is that allowed on trains?

      Trains are the best for moving a human body, carrying nothing, from one population center to another. And that’s it.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      22 days ago

      I have tracks near my house that I could take to work, if they bothered to extend the line. There are some parts that need repair, but the land exists and the rails are largely unused for freight and mostly used to store extra cars. It goes right through most of the city centers in my area, and a large company has already promised to create a ton of jobs if the line is built. Oh, and there’s crazy congestion on the highway that runs parallel to these tracks, and these tracks go right next to two professional sports stadiums.

      So when are they starting construction? Not until 2050 at the earliest… Why? A handful of people in one small area of the line oppose it…

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Uber / Lyft pay their drivers so poorly and continue to abuse US tipping culture so badly that drivers have to work crazy hours for any reasonable pay. This is now a hazard as it’s not uncommon to find drivers starting to fall asleep at the wheel. I welcome this technology but hope some better players emerge than these usual scumbags.

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 days ago

      Zoox’s position is unfortunate because they basically had to sell themselves five years ago in order to keep operating. It takes extremely deep pockets to get this cutting-edge technology on the road while successfully navigating the winding roads of regulations and public trust.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
    162·
    23 days ago

    It’s gonna take a lot more data and trust building to convince me to get in an autonomous piloted vehicle. After working in an industry that does autonomous driving and seeing some of it for myself, i don’t trust it at all.

    • Scolding7300@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      There’s a lot more issues that are inherent to this that I’m against making this mainstream. E.g. if these cars get special road status, will it be maintenance and changes (humans can read signs)? If there will be competition, will the cars then drive empty near places to shorten waiting times? Will it drive these companies to push propaganda to build cities for cars again (i.e. inventing “Jaywalking”, round 2)?

          • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            20 days ago

            Im not gonna call out companies by name. I didn’t work for any of them, we supplied them with the motor control systems they were using, laying all their stuff on top of ours.

            I didn’t think the advanced engineering division we had that did do self driving stuff was all that great either tho.

            • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              20 days ago

              To be fair, it’s really hard to get right. I don’t think it’s fair to discount the technology as a whole just because some people are failing.