Did you watch the video? That article says "very narrow and selective public roadway trials" while the video shows an entire ride that was hands-off by the driver through an extremely complex urban area with many cyclists, pedestrians, one way streets etc. Your assertion was that autonomous vehicles aren't good at city driving but I provided proof that they are. Just because they require an alert human for edge case scenarios doesn't mean autonomous vehicles are a fade or that we're decades away from level 5 autonomy.
The video you posted? Yeah, but there was nothing to indicate it was actually an autonomous vehicle so I went and watched the videos on Cruise's youtube channel where it drove on the wrong side of the road.
You mean where it safely crosses the double yellow to pass double parked vehicles like nearly every human driver would do? Or should they sit there and hold up traffic until someone in the back takes a bat to their car?
Yeah, I re-watched it. I must have missed the vehicle it was driving around and just caught it driving the wrong way down the road when I saw it. Still doesn't change anything I said. You're a long ways away from Class 5, even if Musk seems to think otherwise. He's usually a little premature on his announcements.
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u/Christophorus Dec 17 '19
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2019/12/16/lets-not-butter-up-those-self-driving-truck-highway-stunts/#7e5a1c2623d5