It's more like a parking lot shuttle. About a half dozen stops spread across six blocks.
There are a number of companies in that business. There are minibus-sized vehicles that creep around, like Local Motors' Olli and Navya's shuttle. A reasonable way to get started, but few if any seem to be good enough to have a paying installation with no human driver on board. There are some trials. Paris has some in use on a dedicated route. Shenzhen has a small fleet, but they have a "safety driver".
The Navya unit running in Vegas not only has a backup operator on board, there's another human-driven car following behind.
I like how this car has exterior communication to pedestrians. I think this is actually pretty important. The way I tell if I can cross a crosswalk is by making eye contact with the approaching driver, and other self driving cars can’t indicate if they see me.
Hey! Things are going well! I’m actually on ML now, so quite a bit different than the past few years but I’m enjoying it. Glad to see you guys are making progress; it seems like a pretty exciting field right now
Agreed, this seemed like one of those “totally obvious” needs that only became apparent once I saw their solution. Simple yet effective. I can imagine in the future “eye contact and guess intent” will feel inferior to an explicit, unambiguous status message.
The tidbit on interpreting human gesture (eg construction worker flagging traffic) was interesting, too. I could see that easing people’s minds with regard to autonomous vehicles.
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There are a number of companies in that business. There are minibus-sized vehicles that creep around, like Local Motors' Olli and Navya's shuttle. A reasonable way to get started, but few if any seem to be good enough to have a paying installation with no human driver on board. There are some trials. Paris has some in use on a dedicated route. Shenzhen has a small fleet, but they have a "safety driver".
The Navya unit running in Vegas not only has a backup operator on board, there's another human-driven car following behind.
The tidbit on interpreting human gesture (eg construction worker flagging traffic) was interesting, too. I could see that easing people’s minds with regard to autonomous vehicles.