Robotaxis are getting much better at routine driving. Their harder test begins when the road stops behaving routinely.
Waymo recalled 3,871 autonomous vehicles on June 17 after identifying cases in which its driving system entered freeway construction zones, highlighting a class of problems that becomes more important as driverless fleets encounter temporary road layouts, emergency scenes and other unusual conditions.
That creates an uncomfortable paradox for the industry: autonomous vehicles can outperform human drivers on broad crash statistics while still struggling with rare situations that people can often interpret instinctively.
A paradox…
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