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by anvuong 86 days ago
I've always hated this argument. Why should I want a system that can drive "just as any human driver can"? I want it to be much much much better than the best driver out there, like 100x or 1000x better.

That argument is dumber and dumber any time I think about it. And we haven't even gotten into the fact that human eyes and its partner in crime the brain work much different than a camera.

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Also, human eyes are way better than the best cameras in low light and dynamic range. We're also better at focusing and glare mitigation.

But yes I agree we should hold self driving cars to a higher standard.

Yeah, shining a q-beam at a tesla should not have it turn off FSD.
That’s how Musk works. He waves his hands and uses words like “orders of magnitude” and “first principles” and then you end up with 250-meter long tunnels under your city with Teslas driving back and forth in it and fanboys forget this thing called subways ever existed.