Hacker Read top | best | new | newcomments | leaders | about | bookmarklet login

I think the point here is that going from level 4 to level 5 is a much, much harder problem than going from, say, level 1 to level 4.


view as:

But it's really not. Level 4 will require the vehicle to take you from door to door without driver intervention in normal driving conditions. Level 4 is mostly what people think of when they think of autonomous driving because you can take a nap, work on your laptop, whatever. You get in your car, tell it where you want to go, and it does everything.

Level 5 basically removes the steering wheel so you never drive. But once you're at level 4, almost all of the hard problems have been solved.

https://www.sae.org/news/2019/01/sae-updates-j3016-automated...


Like making sure the river you are about to ford in the Serengeti is low enough so you won't get stuck?

Is that what the CEO of VW is saying here? Their Serengeti autonomous adventuring vehicles might get stuck? If so, I totally missed that nuance.

Legal | privacy