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Google's Autonomous Car Passes 2 Million Miles
Google said today it recently reached a huge milestone with its autonomous cars. Its cars have logged its two-millionth mile. To put into perspective, Google's self-driving cars have travelled roughly 300 years of human driving. The first million miles took Google six years, the second million came in at 16 months. Recode evaluates how far Google's self-driving cars have come. It notes that Google has been involved in 14 of such incidents, 13 of which were caused by other drivers.
They won't get much for that car when they sell it, it's hard to sell a car with more that 100,000 miles on it.
"It notes that Google has been involved in 14 of such incidents"
14 of _which_ such incidents? I mean, i can make a pretty good guess, but if i were to read the blurb without any context i might think this is the 14th time Google has passed a million miles or something.
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That's in the East Coast upgrade package. The New York package doesn't wait for the pedestrian.
Tesla has collected over a billion miles of driving data (about 180 million on autopilot) and adds a million miles every 10 hours.
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I hate these traffic blocking cars with a passion. I live in Mountain view and they are doing 15Mph around a curve which is not even posted as a curve (no danger) and 20-25 where the speed limit is posted at 35-45.
Oh, at first it tolerable. "awe, look at the cute little Google car." After sitting behind these things trying to drive around the city for over a year, I am considering getting an IPO for anti-Google Car chaff cannons. (soda cans full of shredded aluminum foil). I'm pretty sure that would be illegal, so I have not filed a company charter.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I love that you've been modded informative.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
And, that 2 million miles has mostly been on the same few miles of carefully mapped roads. Autonomous cars are a great idea, but, they need to demonstrate that they can handle more that the occasional stray pedestrian. They need to demonstrate the ability to drive on unfamiliar roads and roads with unexpected barriers (road construction that wasn't there yesterday) as well as other vehicles that behave in unexpected (and often illegal) ways.
Because I think we know what the outcome would be.
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Note that the car has only been in autonomous mode approximately 60% of the time. Which is about the amount of time you can spend not paying attention when driving a car manually. Basically, we've finally gotten a computer to do what humans can do with spare cycles.
More non-news to promote an agenda, that's all.
I do realize that the Google cars have a higher level of automated driving, more sensors, etc. (and also some severe limitations on speed, locations, weather, etc.).
However, the object is to collect as much driving data as possible to see how the car behaves in different situations. In that case, total distance matters and Tesla is way ahead of anyone else. Tesla cars collect data even when AP is not switched on which is valuable to see how a human driver handles various road environments.
This highlights a fundamental difference between Google and Tesla. Google is approaching the problem from the point of view that they have to develop a complete system that does everything. Tesla is taking an incremental approach by introducing a low level of autonomous driving with human supervision and then letting the collected data drive continuous improvements. We'll see which approach is best as time goes on.
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That's why I never use subways, airplanes or trains. If I can't drive, I ain't getting in!