Tom Dietterich: Waymo needs a human-driven sensor-packed control condition
tdietterich · x · 2026-11-15
In a discussion on Waymo safety, Thomas Dietterich argues the question isn't settled: Waymo needs to run the control condition — a car bristling with sensors but driven by a person — for a fair comparison. He adds that Waymo likely already has such data from the period when human drivers collected training data.
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