[zactato]

The best thing about waymos is the screen that shows the machine vision and object identification. It sees all the cars, bikes, pedestrians, buses in a full 360 degree circle around the vehicle. It can make good predictions about what each one is doing.

This visual makes it clear how much better it is at driving than humans. There aren't blind spots, it stops at stop signs, it doesn't dangerously speed around corners.

Human drivers create a lot of dangers for pedestrians and cyclists in the city.

[george___c]

This object identification and prediction capability can be easily overloaded. Last night, coming home from Summer Symphony (Idaho's big improvement on Frisco's Stern Grove), I encountered 30 or so drivers behaving rather erratically due to a small roadside meadow containing at least 75 deer, all of which could decide to cross the roadway en masse within a few seconds. I successfully navigated all this, but I would NOT want to be in a Waymo for this trip. And this was in very good weather; obviously bad weather complicates this scenario even further.

[jacobjjacob]

In my experience in SF, a Waymo would handle this just fine. This isn’t really a good example of how it “can be easily overloaded” because there are no Waymo in Idaho?

[bryanlarsen]

A human is likely better than a computer at predicting the movement and behaviour of a single object.

A computer is going to be way better than any human at doing the same for a large number of objects simultaneously.

[xnx]

Waymo vehicles have definitely encountered roads with 75+ people by the side of the road, and have definitely encountered deer. I would feel very safe in a Waymo in the circumstance you described.