A driverless car in San Francisco drove right into wet concrete and got stuck after seemingly mistaking it for a regular road: 'It ain't got a brain'
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The site had been marked off with construction cones and workers stood with flags at each end of the block, according to city officials.

A driverless car in San Francisco drove right into wet concrete and got stuck after seemingly mistaking it for a regular road: ‘It ain’t got a brain’ / The site had been marked off with constructio…::The site had been marked off with construction cones and workers stood with flags at each end of the block, according to city officials.

  • meco03211@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Every time one of these things happens, there’s always comments here about how humans do these things too. Two responses to that:

    First, human drivers are actually really good at driving. Here’s Cory Doctorow explaining this point:

    Just saying “humans are good” is a flat statement with no impact. They would need to be better than self driving cars for that to mean anything. The reason this is always pointed out when news pops up of a self driving car having an accident like this, is because those stories don’t make headlines for someone like you to use as an anecdote.

    There’s like a few hundred robot taxis driving relatively few miles, and the problems are constant.

    This is where you didn’t normalize to miles. Amplified by the next sentence…

    I don’t know of anyone who has plugged the numbers yet, but I suspect they look pretty bad by comparison.

    You don’t know the numbers. You just feel strongly about it. That’s not evidence.