• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    As of Thursday, the company’s self-driving tech has completed over 1,200 miles without a human in the truck.

    That’s not an impressive number. That’s like 2 days’ worth of driving.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah that’s about 2 and a half round-trips between Dallas and Houston, that’s…not a lot to be calling this thing ready to go and pulling out the safety drivers.

      I wonder how these handle accidents, traffic stops, bad lane markings from road construction, mechanical failure, bad weather (heavy rain making it difficult/impossible to see lane markings), etc.

      You’d think they would be keeping the safety drivers in place for at least 6+ months of regular long-haul drives and upwards of 100k miles to cover all bases.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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        11 months ago

        That figure is without a human in the truck, not with a safety driver. I.E, they’ve done a bunch of testing beforehand.