people think I am nuts, but I believe fully autonomous cars, outside of closed campuses like colleges or airports, are the "flying cars" of our time. It will be at least 50 years before you will be getting into a fully autonomous taxi in NYC and getting a ride to Newark airport. Mark this post.
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Apple Reports Self-Driving Car Disengagements to DMV, Earns Worst Rank
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must be the same team writing mac and iOS these days
This does not mean Apple is in dead last place. It could be that Apple is working at algorithms with an eye to a more distant payoff. In other words, perhaps they are working on getting the car to actually understand that is happening rather than simply drive at a perceptual level.
It might also be that they have not yet gotten to the point of implementing the entire self-drive system. For example "prediction" is simply not there.
But more likely, Apple's program is simply not funded at the level of Waymo's
It might also be that they have not yet gotten to the point of implementing the entire self-drive system. For example "prediction" is simply not there.
But more likely, Apple's program is simply not funded at the level of Waymo's
No that's a regular car with a computer that actually interferes with the driver on an active basis.
This shows a curious fact. The majority of people think they are a very good driver and rate themselve far better than average. But clearly, this is mathematically impossible. Most people are just "average".
In fact, exactly half the drivers on the road have below median level driving skill.
While funny, i'm sure this is nothing. I'm sure they are trying to get the polished aluminum look down first.
IMO this is going to end badly and be a complete flop and Apple should stay out. Too many backroad scenarios where human intervention is required and when enough people get injured and file lawsuits.
Better to use this technology for flying vehicles instead and leave the cars as they are.
Better to use this technology for flying vehicles instead and leave the cars as they are.
I wonder if the system learns what it should have done if it was in similar situation again when it goes into manual control
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So the data is pretty much meaningless.
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See above before making illogical conclusions based on nothing.
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The same Apple that has tripled revenues since then?
The short answer is Tesla doesn't have a self driving car of that capacity.
If this answer confuses you, its because you fell for a businesses advertising/marketing.
The same could be said about the starting field at the last Indy 500. Half of those drivers had below median skill compared to the entire field.
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They're still building it.
So the numbers and rankings are meaningless if there is not a standard of what a disengagement is.
Maybe the differences in Apple's criteria for disengagement caused them to place last.
This guy is always on top of posts with like a seriously complex photoshop job for such a short time. Haha nice dude.
I just did. Die hard Apple fan, coveted everything. Just jumped ship for a Google Pixel a 1.5 weeks ago and its still surprising me. Love it so far.
This post shows EXACTLY what people shouldn’t do with a single data point they know nothing about.
Maybe we shouldn’t take one graph and decide we know all there is to know about Apple’s autonomous vehicle program, or anyone else’s.
Some of the companies have names that seem like a kid made them up, while Apple has over a Hundred Billion Dollars to put towards the project. Result: Apple losing.
Embarrassing.
Embarrassing.
Do you really think so? It seems very unlike Apple to answer questions at all, especially when they prefer not to even acknowledge unannounced programs such as this one.
Still don't understand their "go-to-market" strategy with this... Autopilot in my Tesla is truly amazing even though it's not full self driving but close enough to really wow passengers
The data is actually quite meaningless, since the standard for disconnect, taking over, reporting, etc is not standard across the different companies. The test environments are not the same or standardized and neither are the reporting standards. Anyone that understands testing and statistics would know this means nothing. I have no doubt that Apple is lagging, since they started later. But treating this data as a comparison test between different systems is absolutely flawed and invalid. Until each vehicle is put on to the same test track/environment, and evaluated by an independent evaluator under identical conditions, we know nothing about comparative performance.
We'll either be dead in 50 years or our brains will be floating in jars, living in 50 Shades of the Gray/Star Wars cross-over simulations.
Fix Siri before worrying about an AI that can drive a car.