| > The distance between "sort of works" and "works" for AI is considerable. Not infinite.
> Today you can take a driverless cab in San Francisco [...] From the outside, it sure does look like driverless is still firmly at "sort of works": "After California regulators approved the expansion of driverless taxi services in San Francisco earlier this month, it took only a little more than 24 hours for a series of events to begin that seemed to justify the taxis’ detractors. The day after the vote, 10 autonomous vehicles operated by Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors, abruptly stopped functioning in the middle of a busy street in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. Posts to social media showed the cars jammed up, their hazard lights flashing, blocking traffic for 15 minutes. A few days later, another Cruise vehicle drove into a paving project in the Western Addition and got stuck in freshly poured concrete. And then last week, a Cruise car collided with a fire truck in the city, injuring a passenger in the car. So it was that last Friday Cruise agreed to a request from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to cut in half the number of vehicles it operated in San Francisco, even though regulatory approval for more remained in place. The company, which has had 400 driverless vehicles operating in the city, will now have no more than 50 cars running during the day and 150 at night."[0] [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/us/california-autonomous-... |
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