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0 pointsLonestar14402y ago0 comments

From my perspective as an SF resident, it truly does not exist here.

We have some interesting experiments (Cruise, Waymo) wandering around (a subset of) our streets, but they simply can't drive nearly as well as 98% of humans.

They achieve some measure of "safety" by failing safe e.g. stopping and putting hazard flashers on when confused. But they're not an effective or useful "service" for us, in the current state. Have you ever seen one try to deal with a contested left turn, or a 4 way stop with pedestrians constantly crossing?

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fnord772y ago

Every waymo ride I have had has been at least as good of a driver as a mediocre Uber driver.

Haven't tried it, but I hear Cruise is considerably worse.

> Have you ever seen one try to deal with a contested left turn, or a 4 way stop with pedestrians constantly crossing?

I've done considerable mileage in Waymo and these two situations it handles pretty well. I think the software is improving rapidly - I've reported some problems that happened consistently that a week later seem to have been resolved

seanmcdirmid2y ago

> or a 4 way stop with pedestrians constantly crossing?

The problem is by the letter of the law, the car can simply never proceed. People drivers don’t need to adhere to that letter so much, so can get creative, auto taxis can’t.

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