Video shared on social media shows a Waymo driving through a red light and into an active police standoff in downtown Los Angeles.
Video shared on social media shows a Waymo driving through a red light and into an active police standoff in downtown Los Angeles.
I’ve always said that edge cases will continue to plague “AI” things like self driving cars until true AGI exists. In the decades I’ve been driving I’ve seen all manner of edge cases that neither Waymo nor any other self driving car would handle properly.
One example I like to use is when I stopped at a red light next to a construction site. I was watching the red light and didn’t see a cop next to the construction zone who was waving me through the red light. He eventually took a few steps towards my car and yelled to get my attention, after which I drove through the red light.
For a self driving car to respond in a situation like that it would need to recognize the cop as an authority figure and not just a pedestrian that is overriding the red light you stopped at.
I’ve been saying this for over a decade and it’s served me well.
Its even worse with LLMs, at least an autonomous vehicle has a set functionality, but people are using LLMs to solve all sorts a problems.
See the answer is to remove the edge cases. We make a special road for only self driving cars. No human traffic lights, no pedestrians, just flawless roads. While we’re at it let’s make a special road that the cars couldn’t fall off of if they tried. That will make lane keeping trivial so the cars just need to go straight. We can even make the special road steer for them. Actually since they’re all going the same way we can tie them all together so we only need one engine and can save money hehehe. We’ll make self driving so easy bro.