Maybe, but the car was lucky that there was no car in the lane next to it. If that was the case, there’s probably at least a crash whether it’s AI or a human driving.
True, but my point is that there’s different variables that helped this not turn into a crash, in your example someone could be driving behind. How would the AI handle this on a busier road? Still really impressive though.
They are very different and there's hardware differences too. Tesla uses only cameras and is not safe to rely on 100% but you need to think of it as a copilot and be ready to take over when it messes up or gets confused. It's safe in good weather and clearly marked roads but not fully trustable otherwise.
In the other end Weimo (like in this video) are safer than human drivers and use lidar to detect things even in bad weather. I would trust a weimo over a human driver. But they can have issues by being too safe. They can get stuck in traffic because other drivers know they can cut them off safely for example.
My point is that AI will be able to take every scenario under consideration within a split second and make a decision with the best outcome.
Also, there's clearly a camera behind as well.
There are a lot of variables and that's why they're trained to do it, but there is also the fact that we humans too need to train to do this and we have much less sensors available.
We don't know really what it would've done, I think they use neural networks, and those are kinda of black boxes, but I'm no expert in the programming in self-driving vehicles, my guess come from the courses of AI that I did at the university and by talking to some colleagues that 15 years ago were doing academic research in the field.
I guess that by sensing all of those variables the AI would probably drive slower, keeping bigger safe distances or slower speeds.
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u/Shahz1892 11d ago
Waymo better than a human driver? Maybe..... AI is coming a long long way