I don't think you're being very accurate there. There are lots of videos of people commuting 50+ miles to and from work every day without touching anything while on the interstates, including interchanges. It's doing a lot more than just lane keeping.
Perhaps you should check more frequently? Here is a video of a Tesla on Autopilot stopping for a stop sign:
https://electrek.co/2019/05/29/tesla-autopilot-stop-sign-mak...
> “The car always stops at the end of a highway exit since Navigate on Autopilot. At the stop, you just need to touch the accelerator to start Autopilot again without Navigate on Autopilot. I didn’t accelerate, you just need to touch the accelerator for less than a second and the car will do the rest at the intersection.”
[1] https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-autopilot-fsd-traffic-light-...
Which cars have you drive with a superior cruise control implementation?
I feel like people forget human drivers hit those same barriers with alarming frequency.
That being said, Tesla's cruise control capabilities are best in class, but it's misleading marketing-speak to call it true self-driving.
What I mean is, you are not providing input to the wheel, or pedals, or turn signal or driving the car in any way. You're just letting it know you have not fallen asleep.
And, yes, thanks for asking, I have used it.
Honestly, if your only critiques are based on hearsay then maybe you shouldn't critique.
I’m going to ignore the fact that you’re flatly incorrect about the rest of your posts regarding Tesla, since others have more ably corrected you than I could, and simply ask what the hell this even means.
A “production revenue service”? This sounds like meaningless babble. Waymo does not currently have anything available that you can buy, lease, subscribe to, or otherwise exchange money for. That is, in fact, the entire point of the article: “coming soon,” they say, with an additional clause on top of even that: “coming soon you may...”
So: what do you mean when you say “Waymo is in production revenue service”? Because that sounds like nonsense, to be honest.
The problem with the latter approach is the long tail of real life variety doesn't lend itself to a fixed set of programmed rules. You'll always have more edge cases.
I think Waymos approach gets you to 90% faster, but then plateaus.
It is already full self driving in some cities, whereas my Tesla cannot even detect stop signs.
I love my Tesla but I harbor no illusions about the eventual victor of this self-driving race.
1:49:30. I’m on mobile otherwise I would link to the exact spot.
Tesla has tens (hundreds?) of thousands of vehicles on the road right now that are continuously feeding training data back to Tesla. What evidence is there that this is insufficient, or even deficient? From what I can gather, Waymo has limited testing geofenced to Phoenix, Arizona. Tesla has cars all over the world with autopilot, all providing training data.
I don’t see a reason for your conviction that Waymo has an advantage here.
So you have a lot more Teslas sending a lot less data each. I'm not sure which company has the richer training set.
Are they?
- they could store data to be collected in bulk when the car is in the garage for maintenance or servicing or repair.
- Superchargers could include fast data transfer in their cable for cars using them.
- Superchargers could include a wireless data collection from cars sopped at or near them.
- Cars could connect to public wifi to upload data at any car park, any place, any time.
- Tesla could have vehicles driving around, like Google mapping cars, collecting data wirelessly from nearby Teslas.
I don't know if they do any of them, but none are unreasonable things for companies of 2019 to think about doing.
I honestly don't expect go-anywhere L5 in the next decade at least, and I definitely expect an engineered approach to hit L4 first.
I'm not sure how long it will take, but I'm sure we'll get there.
I suspect that isn't true in so far that engineers will build what works. Building a complicated system like an autonomous car will necessarily involve a messy combination of a bunch of different strategies and with the result converging on a common solution.