[technocrat8080]

Vastly overstating its capabilities? SF is ~crawling~ with them 24/7 and I've yet to meet someone who's had a bad experience in one of them. They operate more than well enough to replace rideshare drivers, and they have been.

[dash2]

But SF is a single US city built on a grid. Try London or Manila.

[namaria]

That's usually how it goes with 'AI'. It is very impressive on the golden path, but the world is 80% edge cases.

[rafaelmn]

With nicest weather on the planet probably

[Y-bar]

SF has pretty much the best weather there is to drive in. Try putting them on Minnesota winter roads, or muddy roads in Kansas for example.

[fragmede]

How stupid of Google. Instead of getting their self driving car technology to work in a blizzard first, and then working on getting it working in a city, they choose to get it working in a city first, before getting it to work in inclement weather. What idiots!

[Y-bar]

I hope you are sarcastic! Because it is quite expected that they would test where it is easy first. The stupid ones are those who parrot the incorrect assumption that self-driving cars are comparable to humans at general driving where statistics on general driving includes lots of driving in suboptimal condition.