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toxik 2 days ago

I talked to a guy who did his doctoral degree on quantum computing and he was not worried at all. In fact he thought it was wildly overhyped, and like cold fusion, self driving cars, or string theory, always just around the corner. Just give us five more years and another grant, please.

red75prime 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Meanwhile Waymo has 200 million autonomous miles under its belt.

deepsun 2 days ago | parent [-]

Waymo had millions in 2015.

red75prime 2 days ago | parent [-]

Waymo doesn't seem to know it.

https://waymo.com/research/safety-performance-of-the-waymo-r...

> Waymo’s rider-only ride-hailing operations reached its first one million rider-only miles on January 21, 2023

deepsun 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

"Autonomous" (with safety driver) and "rider-only" are different things.

vidarh 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The key distinction being "rider-only".

red75prime 2 days ago | parent [-]

If we are counting supervised miles, then Tesla is in the lead with around 8 billion miles.

codethief 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

N=1 sample size.

I talked to another guy with the same degree in the same field and he was concerned.

bwesterb 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Scott used to be that guy.