Waymo is getting serious
First of all, in case you aren't following this sort of thing, the Uber crash I mentioned in my last post on self driving cars is actually a lot worse than it looked at first. According to the NTSB report the victim of the crash had been detected but emergency braking maneuvers are not enabled while the vehicle is under computer control, to reduce the potential for erratic vehicle behavior. The vehicle operator is relied on to intervene and take action. The system is not designed to alert the operator. which makes me wonder if this rises to the level of criminal negligence. Certainly there are currently no localities that are allowing Uber to test on their roads which might be the end of Uber's program. Tesla has also been in the news with some crashes involving its cars running on autopilot. But autopilot of the sort you normally have in a boat or plane or one of Tesla's cars isn't full self driving. The pilot or driver is supposed to remain on alert a