[manmal]

Ah, why so gloomy. Solving this probably comes down to 1) sensors, and 2) computational power available in a car. The sensors used in Teslas were a joke last time I looked (low res, bad low light performance, not enough cameras probably), certainly we can do better? And Moore‘s law is still alive in a way, allowing stunning progress like demonstrated in Chat-GPT. Ever-growing car batteries will also allow for way more power draw for computing. I expect vast improvements in the next few years. Maybe we can get from „drives like a drunk teenager“ to „drives like an overly cautious grandparent“ at least.

[sofixa]

> 1) sensors, and 2) computational power available in a car.

Waymo and Cruise use dedicated hardware and aren't artificially constrained either by preexisting sensors nor compute. Yet they haven't fully solved the problem yet, with Waymo still struggling with unexpected but really should be expected stuff such as road construction, while being available only in specific geographic areas and with quite expensive sensors and years of work.