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Sounds like their program was utterly failing, and that's before they struck and killed a pedestrian...
Waymo, formerly the self-driving car project of Google, said that in tests on roads in California last year, its cars went an average of nearly 5,600 miles before the driver had to take control from the computer to steer out of trouble. As of March, Uber was struggling to meet its target of 13 miles per “intervention” in Arizona
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/technology/uber-self-driving-cars-arizona.html
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I'm amazed at the Waymo stat. 5600 miles without someone intervening?? damn.
Too bad Googlems reputation has severely hampered by this.
Does anyone one know how Tesla is doing on these tests
well they haven't killed anyone yet so there's that.
Yeah that's what I took away from this too. That seems incredible to me. I challenge any human drive to go 5600 miles without doing something stupid. Texting while driving, driving drowsy or drunk, etc.
Wow. If they were doing so poorly, they shouldn't have been allowed on public roads! If you can't go 13 miles without someone stepping in to save the day, you're not ready for prime time.
And keep in mind that's average. That includes all the "easy" miles of highway driving. They must have been stopping much more frequently in urban areas...
Regarding the uber crash last week. "A video shot from the vehicle’s dashboard camera showed the safety driver looking down, away from the road. It also appeared that the driver’s hands were not hovering above the steering wheel, which is what drivers are instructed to do so they can quickly retake control of the car."
Ok so this car which can't go 13 miles without someone intervening did not have a human driver for all intents and purposes. Uber basically unleashed this unreliable robot car on public roads and someone got killed.
Here's a new conspiracy theory. The recent pedestrian killing was to bring Waymo down. They're gonna lose anyway
All of these programs should be shut down. This is a pipe dream. These cars will never be safe.
"They were so busy thinking about whether they could, that they forgot to stop and think about whether they should."