Might well be the wrong place,probabley the wrong page as well. There are 272.1 million cars on the road in the US last year of which 171,500 caught fire Tesla has built 300,00 cars and from what I can find online there are at least 2 fires a week relating to them. I will leave the math.
Google has already demonstrated they are able to map the parts of the world where they would want to drive in the foreseeable future, so the need for maps is not much of a limitation. Using maps is safer so why not use them if you can? Clearly they are able to deal with some changes in the map environment or else they wouldn't be able to drive as much as they do.Yow fresh they generally are? 1 year, 2 years? I've seen plenty of situations when map came out yesterday, but does not match actual road which was rebuilt differently a few months ago. Not to say, it's not just satellite view that is required in this case.
There were 2 fires in one week not too long time ago. But 2 fires a week is not true at all. Usually there are no fires for several months in a row, then each fire is a big news. No publicly available info of model 3 catching fire so far.
Funnily enough, even if they were catching on fire 2x a week, it would still be way below average.
According to his numbers, the national average is 1 fire/year per 1587 cars, and Tesla is at 1 fire/year per 2885 cars. (For Tesla, that's calculating 2 fires/week or 104 fires/year, which is definitely more than reality.)
Google has already demonstrated they are able to map the parts of the world where they would want to drive in the foreseeable future, so the need for maps is not much of a limitation. Using maps is safer so why not use them if you can? Clearly they are able to deal with some changes in the map environment or else they wouldn't be able to drive as much as they do.Yow fresh they generally are? 1 year, 2 years? I've seen plenty of situations when map came out yesterday, but does not match actual road which was rebuilt differently a few months ago. Not to say, it's not just satellite view that is required in this case.
Google has already demonstrated they are able to map the parts of the world where they would want to drive in the foreseeable future, so the need for maps is not much of a limitation. Using maps is safer so why not use them if you can? Clearly they are able to deal with some changes in the map environment or else they wouldn't be able to drive as much as they do.Yow fresh they generally are? 1 year, 2 years? I've seen plenty of situations when map came out yesterday, but does not match actual road which was rebuilt differently a few months ago. Not to say, it's not just satellite view that is required in this case.But how much of the total amount of roads is that? 0.0001%? You also have to understand that the map data + location is used to augment what the sensors bring in.
IMHO it is pretty useless to discuss all kinds of edge cases. People also drive off the road for many different reasons. Why should a self driving car be error free? In the end what counts is that less people get injured or killed in car accidents and that mobility improves.
But how much of the total amount of roads is that? 0.0001%
IMHO it is pretty useless to discuss all kinds of edge cases.
IMHO it is pretty useless to discuss all kinds of edge cases. People also drive off the road for many different reasons. Why should a self driving car be error free? In the end what counts is that less people get injured or killed in car accidents and that mobility improves.
I don't say it should be error free but relying on precision maps is a kind of dead end approach. You can get stellar results when in perfect environment but when it comes to real life, it will kinda suck. They report low number of disengagements but IMO it's a misleading number since they drive in thoroughly investigated areas.
This is something that's a piece of cake for Waymo and similar cars, but the Tesla autopilot thingie gets confused just because the lane marking isn't perfectly visible:
How about Waymo not working when raining but Tesla doing just fine?
What will an auto do when one of these bastards crawls across the lidar sensor. They love crawling across windscreens and freaking out drivers. But in the words of Douglas Adams they are mostly harmless. F'ing big though.