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[–] melfie@lemy.lol 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I believe Waymo’s strategy has always been to shoot for level 5 autonomous driving and not bother with the others. Tesla not following that strategy has proven them correct. You either have a system that is safe, reliable, and fully autonomous, or you’ve got nothing. Not that Waymo has a system at this point that can work under all conditions, but their approach is definitely superior to Tesla’s if nothing else.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

From what I've seen, most issues with Waymo are that they are too careful, too rigid with laws and too easy to fool with things like traffic cones and lines of spray paint. Meanwhile Teslas speed past stopped school buses mowing down children and crash in to walls and parked cars at highway speeds.

Imma take my chances with the car stuck in the middle of the road because someone plopped a traffic cone on the hood, thank you very much.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Waymo is currently level 4 autonomous driving. The difference between levels 4 and 5 is that level 4 is geofenced and level 5 is not. (And level 5 has no steering controls).