Ben W
Chess Grandmaster (Supervised)
It’s a well-worn observation that commercial plane crashes are typically due to about seven coincidental and compounding failures. As AVs become more and more reliable, we will start to see the same thing happening there, as in this case.So it's a swiss-cheese kind of failure, where all the systems that did make mistakes had to line up in just the right ways:
As far as radar/lidar, of course they don’t magically instantly solve anything, as they didn’t in this case. But they do enable certain problems to be much more tractably solved, by providing useful information that pure vision can’t. (To be clear, this specific telephone pole scenario should be solvable with pure vision.) Of course the system or NN needs to be properly trained/coded to process and interpret the radar/lidar information. I’m just saying that the overall system should be able to get to more 9’s more quickly with that information than without it, and that this is important for the future of Robotaxi and AVs in general.