[dasimon]

Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'."

tl;dr of the article:

- Autonomous vehicles drove fewer miles in the state of California in 2017, but maybe made up for that in miles driven elsewhere.

- The disengagement rate will probably need to improve considerably before AVs are ready for widespread deployment

- Waymo's disengagement rate barely improved year over year, but that may have been because they are placing the cars in more difficult scenarios (their blog post suggests that is indeed the case)

[akvadrako]

The article does not say "no" or that autonomous cars are still getting better at any meaningful rate.

Maybe we're 90% of the way to practical self-driving, but won't reach 99% for the foreseeable future.

[tome]

tome's law: In any discussion about an article whose title is a question, Betteridge's law is mentioned with probability 1.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9077549

[ddlatham]

Perhaps you should revise the law to just yes/no questions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16288489

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16276911

On the other hand, even those aren't holding up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16277231

[tome]

Good point and good observation! The statement of Betteridge's Law itself would have to be changed though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines