[sjwright]

Yes, I watched the video. And to jog my memory I just watched it again now. Excatly as I described earlier: "a hacked-together mule loaded up with a pile of sensors on a roof rack."

That video has exceptionally high production values indicative of a carefully stage-managed performance on near-empty streets with exotic hardware that's never going to be used in any consumer car. I don't mean to diminish Google's achievement, but it's hardly the same as actually shipping hardware to customers.

[Fricken]

I do not believe that Google was being disingenuous with their blind driver goes to taco bell video. But that's besides the point, demo videos don't mean shit. Getting a car to noodle around the neighbourhood under supervised conditions is a far cry from having a vehicle that can do that reliably all the time.

Waymo is down to 1 emergency disengage for every 5000 miles of driving, and that's a far more suitable metric for progress.