[CloudYeller]

When are they going to just seal off an area so it's self-driving vehicles only, and test them there? In a 100% self driving environment, edge cases are probably much easier to reason about. And if the future is 100% self driving, they should probably get some training data from that environment anyway.

[tlb]

Waymo has quite a large autonomous-only test facility. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/insid... They also use it to populate simulations with realistic traffic models.

[javagram]

With bicycles and pedestrians sharing the common roads, a 100% self driving environment anywhere but the freeway is never going to happen though. They need to be able to handle the chaos.

[icelancer]

>> When are they going to just seal off an area so it's self-driving vehicles only, and test them there?

Talk about your all-time overfitting problem.

[berdario]

They already ran plenty of tests in a controlled environment:

https://www.wired.com/story/google-waymo-self-driving-car-ca...