This object identification and prediction capability can be easily overloaded. Last night, coming home from Summer Symphony (Idaho's big improvement on Frisco's Stern Grove), I encountered 30 or so drivers behaving rather erratically due to a small roadside meadow containing at least 75 deer, all of which could decide to cross the roadway en masse within a few seconds. I successfully navigated all this, but I would NOT want to be in a Waymo for this trip. And this was in very good weather; obviously bad weather complicates this scenario even further.
In my experience in SF, a Waymo would handle this just fine. This isn’t really a good example of how it “can be easily overloaded” because there are no Waymo in Idaho?
Waymo vehicles have definitely encountered roads with 75+ people by the side of the road, and have definitely encountered deer. I would feel very safe in a Waymo in the circumstance you described.
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This object identification and prediction capability can be easily overloaded. Last night, coming home from Summer Symphony (Idaho's big improvement on Frisco's Stern Grove), I encountered 30 or so drivers behaving rather erratically due to a small roadside meadow containing at least 75 deer, all of which could decide to cross the roadway en masse within a few seconds. I successfully navigated all this, but I would NOT want to be in a Waymo for this trip. And this was in very good weather; obviously bad weather complicates this scenario even further.
In my experience in SF, a Waymo would handle this just fine. This isn’t really a good example of how it “can be easily overloaded” because there are no Waymo in Idaho?
A human is likely better than a computer at predicting the movement and behaviour of a single object.
A computer is going to be way better than any human at doing the same for a large number of objects simultaneously.
Waymo vehicles have definitely encountered roads with 75+ people by the side of the road, and have definitely encountered deer. I would feel very safe in a Waymo in the circumstance you described.