At least it releases people instead of driving then into a tree.
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This is the same robotaxi that Elon was up on stage a few years back claiming to make tens of thousands of dollars for their owners every year, that was going to launch in a year?
At the same time claiming that it would be financially insane to buy any other car than a tesla?
That one?
Yeah, I am quite happy with my 2021 Seat Leon.
This is why most of the robotaxi testing is only in dryer fair weather areas. All of them have issues with precipitation.
Well, sort of!
The reason almost everyone starts in Phoenix AZ is partially the lack of rain. It's also a friendly regulatory environment and a dead-simple street grid structure.
Austin TX gets as much rain as, say, Chicago IL, neither is particularly dry. And Atlanta GA is very, very rainy. On paper it actually gets more rain than Seattle WA.
FWIW, LiDAR based autonomous vehicles have figured this out, Waymo can handle all but the heaviest rain (which, TBF, humans also cannot reliably handle)
Huh I never thought of that. Its a whole new engineering problem the ai wouldn't be trained to handle the different coefficient of friction cos it would be so underrepresented in the training data. Not to mention how it inhibits vision and lidar.
All of this news gives me more respect for Waymo. Which sucks.
LoL, this was my joke about EV's, namely that they don't work in the rain, come true IRL. This is really a weird timeline! FWIW, my ionic 5 seems just fine in weather, rain, snow, etc.
Meanwhile in Europe where MOIA is working with VW on an autonomous mini-van taxi, they first make the product work before releasing it:
Since the beginning of the year, MOIA has been testing the ID. Buzz AD in winter conditions in Oslo, Norway. Along with tests in Austin, Texas, USA, Munich, and Hamburg, these efforts expand the operational capabilities of our autonomous technology to perform in extreme climates. (https://youtu.be/Vaa3QH2hzRs)
Are all Teslas allergic to water???
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