[george___c]

This object identification and prediction capability can be easily overloaded. Last night, coming home from Summer Symphony (Idaho's big improvement on Frisco's Stern Grove), I encountered 30 or so drivers behaving rather erratically due to a small roadside meadow containing at least 75 deer, all of which could decide to cross the roadway en masse within a few seconds. I successfully navigated all this, but I would NOT want to be in a Waymo for this trip. And this was in very good weather; obviously bad weather complicates this scenario even further.

[jacobjjacob]

In my experience in SF, a Waymo would handle this just fine. This isn’t really a good example of how it “can be easily overloaded” because there are no Waymo in Idaho?

[bryanlarsen]

A human is likely better than a computer at predicting the movement and behaviour of a single object.

A computer is going to be way better than any human at doing the same for a large number of objects simultaneously.

[xnx]

Waymo vehicles have definitely encountered roads with 75+ people by the side of the road, and have definitely encountered deer. I would feel very safe in a Waymo in the circumstance you described.