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Waymos crash less than human drivers

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345 points rbanffy | 2 comments | 26 Mar 25 20:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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labrador ◴[26 Mar 25 21:36 UTC] No.43487628[source]▶
I was initially skeptical about self-driving cars but I've been won over by Waymo's careful and thoughtful approach using visual cues, lidar, safety drivers and geo-fencing. That said I will never trust my life to a Tesla robotaxi that uses visual cues only and will drive into a wall painted to look like the road ahead like Wile E. Coyote. Beep beep.

Man Tests If Tesla Autopilot Will Crash Into Wall Painted to Look Like Road https://futurism.com/tesla-wall-autopilot

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jksflkjl3jk3 ◴[27 Mar 25 05:33 UTC] No.43490629[source]▶
> That said I will never trust my life to a Tesla robotaxi that uses visual cues only and will drive into a wall painted to look like the road ahead

If you can visually detect the painted wall, what makes you think that cameras on a Tesla can't be developed to do the same?

And are deliberately deceptive road features actually a common enough concern?

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1. aoeusnth1 ◴[27 Mar 25 05:59 UTC] No.43490748[source]▶
How about fog and rain?
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2. mavhc ◴[30 Mar 25 08:42 UTC] No.43522509[source]▶
Same as humans, drive slow enough that you can stop when you see something ahead. As demonstrated Lidar doesn't work in rain either.

HW4 Tesla stopped before the painting of a road https://futurism.com/someone-else-tested-tesla-crash-wall-pa...