It wasn't until the second day I was in LA last weekend when I realized oh shit! They have Waymo here! I've should give one a try.I've been obsessed with the idea of self-driving cars for decades, having grown up reading WIRED and OMNI magazines. I assumed up until about ten years ago we'd have more robot drivers than regular cars on the road any day now. Photo by Andri Aeschlimann / UnsplashIt wasn't until I taught my teen how to drive over the course of 2019-2020 that I figured out self-driving cars actually had an insurmountable challenge before they could ever happen in the real world. Going through the whole process of teaching her what I was doing, I suddenly realized I'm always monitoring a hundred different things whenever I drive anywhere and it's hard to impart this on a teen with zero experience. I've worked around the software industry for years and I can't imagine a 100% reliable self-driving program that can take into account not just the dozens of vehicles surrounding…
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