
#HARDWARE MONITOR QUOTES DRIVER#
Just the fact that Tesla still has a driver while Waymo has been able to remove the driver, says a lot about the reliability of Waymo. If you look deeper, I think Waymo is ahead in FSD capabilities. Sure, if you only look at a few videos where both Tesla and Waymo drive around Chandler with no interventions, then it might look like a tie. If you mean the race to "solve FSD", I think Waymo would still be ahead. And Waymo will soon open up their driverless rides to the public in SF and downtown Phoenix making their lead even bigger, if we are counting number of robotaxis. If you mean the race to deploy actual robotaxis, then Waymo would be ahead since they have deployed public robotaxis while Tesla has not deployed any public robotaxis yet. But they'll need good labels if we are to understand what to expect of them out there. None of the words we use now-self-driving, driverless, or autonomous captures what's important or distinctive about these human-machine. What do we call this scheme, which resembles the way harbor pilots take control of big ships as they approach the coast? Similarly, but at a much smaller scale, MIT's Sangbae Kim builds robots that move over terrain under Al-guided locomotion, while remote pairs of human hands take control of arms and cranes during fine-grained manipulations of the world in front of them. Starsky Robotics, a startup, is developing big rigs that drive themselves on the highway but when traveling on local streets are steered by human operators in a distant control center. The trucking industry is also experimenting with remote human control. These operators don't steer but approve AV-planned detours like driving around a double-parked vehicle blocking a one-lane street. Today Waymo's "fleet response" team members monitor vehicles in the field from a central command center in Chandler, Arizona, and "weigh in with an extra set of eyes" whenever an AV meets a surprise on the road. I doubt that you are really making this claim seriously but, just for the record, I’ve taken late night rides in the otherwise empty Cruise EVs in San Francisco and have watched them quickly and seamlessly handle multiple double-parked cars.īut there's also a whole vocabulary to be crafted to explain the unfamiliar space-time of teleoperation. The same city that Waymo has gone driverless in and will soon be public in the coming weeks. 10 miles! In the same video you see 2+ Waymos driving. It took just 10 miles for there to be a safety disengagement at the very end of the video. If you take a look at SF, if you look at the latest video from AIDRIVER. Even on a one drive sample, let alone a 1,000 or 10,000 drive sample. Yet the Waymo didn't exhibit none of these issues. I could go on and on about this one drive. Stopping on the wrong place, being confused at an intersection, not knowing what to do, missing speed bumps and not reacting until the last second. Tesla turns into the opposing lane, scaring both drivers.Īdditionally through out the ride, tesla drives in the middle of the road, sometimes driving 25% in the opposing lane. On the same exact street, making similar right turn. Waymo on the other hand is perfect every time.įor example in the latest waymo vs Tesla FSD comparison. for example in Phoenix, not only does Tesla require a safety disengagement from time to time in comparison videos, it actually drives dangerously consistently.

Its funny that you say that because in these "easy drives" Tesla FSD still falls way short of Waymo and its not even close. Other, simpler double-parking situations, were immediately recognized and steered-around gracefully without stopping.

All of that maneuvering was precise and happened quicker than any human remote controller would have performed. The double-parked car then moved in parallel to the curb to park and the Cruise car simultaneously moved back into the normal lane slot and continued on its way. After a second or two, the Cruise car quickly began steering around the car in the road and then stopped when it sensed that the parallel parked car was about to drive away - which it did. One time involved a double-parked car waiting to take the place of another car that was parallel parked just ahead of it and was about to leave (although this was not obvious to me when my Cruise car pulled up to the scene). Click to expand.I doubt that you are really making this claim seriously but, just for the record, I’ve taken late night rides in the otherwise empty Cruise EVs in San Francisco and have watched them quickly and seamlessly handle multiple double-parked cars.
