Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by steveBK123 1367 days ago
Bad weather & bad visibility, most of the self driving solutions to date just hand back control to a human driver. In other words, hand back control at the last possible second in the most difficult driving to a human who has been in an otherwise relaxed and lest alert state. Winning!

It's like if spell check only worked on words shorter than 6 letters.

1 comments

This is wrong, only the shittiest self driving in name only systems have that behavior. Any real attempts at it (i.e. not Tesla or comma) do not expect or require a human takeover immediately. For example, Cruise and waymo don't even have humans to take over, MB has a 10 second warning (and actually the human doesn't even need to takeover at that point, the system will slowly bring the car to a stop).
Well as we see Cruise's solution is to stop dead in the middle of the street until a service team comes out to resolve. If there was a human driver they would be handing back control.

Probably pretty fun if you happen to be a passenger when this happens.