Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Are Flocking to a Dead-End Street in San Francisco

https://gizmodo.com/waymos-self-driving-cars-are-mysteriously-flocking-to-a-1847862042

by CapitalistCartr • 5 years ago

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gok• 5 years ago

The actual article without the G/O Media blog spam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28855065

illinx• 5 years ago

What are the chances they set their world origin in San Francisco?

3pt14159• 5 years ago

My guess: There's a small inaccuracy in the map data (I can think of a number possible ways this could happen) leading the cars to think that the dead end road connects somehow to where they want to go, but it doesn't. So they give up but don't update the data for the rest of the fleet.

Something like that. Theres a false link in the graph.

itisit• 5 years ago

And once these vehicles become sentient they’ll be flocking away from San Francisco.

hoopleheaded• 5 years ago

The area in question is quite nice and doesn't have as many of the problems as other areas of the city you are probably thinking of.

mathattack• 5 years ago

Interesting. I’ve noticed a lot of bad directions from Google Maps the past month or so. Same issue?

hammeiam• 5 years ago

What a diverse set of interviewees

Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Are Flocking to a Dead-End Street in San Francisco

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