> I doubt we'll see self-driving vehicles on the road in any reasonable numbers anytime soon
I don't know about the rate of deployment, but Google is already lobbying Nevada to officially allow its driverless cars. They have successfully logged hundreds of thousands of miles on U.S. roadways with only one incident: one of the driverless cars was rear ended while waiting at a red light.
> Driving (with irrational human actors) is non-deterministic.
They don't have to "solve" driving. All they have to do is be less stupid than human drivers.
We haven't set the bar that high.
Even so, the Google project seems to be working fine so far, irrational human drivers notwithstanding.
I don't know about the rate of deployment, but Google is already lobbying Nevada to officially allow its driverless cars. They have successfully logged hundreds of thousands of miles on U.S. roadways with only one incident: one of the driverless cars was rear ended while waiting at a red light.
> Driving (with irrational human actors) is non-deterministic.
They don't have to "solve" driving. All they have to do is be less stupid than human drivers.
We haven't set the bar that high.
Even so, the Google project seems to be working fine so far, irrational human drivers notwithstanding.