Subj : Re: 3.5 weeks to being la
To   : Blue White
From : esc
Date : Mon Aug 08 2022 12:07:30

 BW> Even with the self-driving cars, you do have to pay attention just in
 BW> case you need to overide a decision it has made?

In the industry these are called "disengagements". In an ideal world, each of these events are studied and understood, and findings are used to refine the autonomy stack. I can't speak to how well every company does this, however.

The interesting thing about autonomy is that industry knows it's a foregone conclusion that we're headed that way, but consumers actually fear the tech so there is no consumer driven market push to get this tech developed. So in a sense it is in a very weird spot. Additionally, every company goes about autonomy in a different way...for example, Tesla /only/ uses cameras, which seems to be working pretty well for them, however I don't think I would feel comfortable with actual "autonomy" unless there were additional on-vehicle sensors like LIDAR.

The truly odd thing about the industry and autonomy is that companies are competing to have the best autonomous platform, however I'm of the opinion that proper autonomy should be a universal endeavor since safe on-road experience means everyone wins. I don't think we would ever go the collective development route without government interference, though.

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