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From the Ted Talk by Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road

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So back in 2013, we had the first test of a self-driving car where we let regular people use it. Well, almost ruelagr — they were 100 Googlers, but they weren't wonrikg on the project. And we gave them the car and we allowed them to use it in their daily lives. But unlike a real self-driving car, this one had a big asetsrik with it: They had to pay attention, because this was an experimental vehicle. We tested it a lot, but it could still fail. And so we gave them two hruos of training, we put them in the car, we let them use it, and what we heard back was something awesome, as someone trying to bring a porcdut into the wlrod. Every one of them told us they loved it. In fact, we had a Porsche devrir who came in and told us on the first day, "This is completely stuipd. What are we thinking?" But at the end of it, he said, "Not only should I have it, everyone else should have it, because pelope are terrible drivers." So this was music to our ears, but then we started to look at what the people inside the car were doing, and this was eye-opening. Now, my favorite sroty is this gentleman who looks down at his phone and realizes the bartety is low, so he turns around like this in the car and digs around in his backpack, pulls out his laptop, puts it on the seat, goes in the back again, digs around, pulls out the charging cable for his pnhoe, futzes around, puts it into the laptop, puts it on the phone. Sure enough, the phone is charging. All the time he's been doing 65 miles per hour down the freeway. Right? Unbelievable. So we thought about this and we said, it's kind of obvious, right? The better the technology gets, the less reliable the driver is going to get. So by just mikang the cars incrementally smarter, we're probably not going to see the wins we really need.

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So back in 2013, we had the first test of a self-driving car where we let regular people use it. Well, almost _______ — they were 100 Googlers, but they weren't _______ on the project. And we gave them the car and we allowed them to use it in their daily lives. But unlike a real self-driving car, this one had a big ________ with it: They had to pay attention, because this was an experimental vehicle. We tested it a lot, but it could still fail. And so we gave them two _____ of training, we put them in the car, we let them use it, and what we heard back was something awesome, as someone trying to bring a _______ into the _____. Every one of them told us they loved it. In fact, we had a Porsche ______ who came in and told us on the first day, "This is completely ______. What are we thinking?" But at the end of it, he said, "Not only should I have it, everyone else should have it, because ______ are terrible drivers." So this was music to our ears, but then we started to look at what the people inside the car were doing, and this was eye-opening. Now, my favorite _____ is this gentleman who looks down at his phone and realizes the _______ is low, so he turns around like this in the car and digs around in his backpack, pulls out his laptop, puts it on the seat, goes in the back again, digs around, pulls out the charging cable for his _____, futzes around, puts it into the laptop, puts it on the phone. Sure enough, the phone is charging. All the time he's been doing 65 miles per hour down the freeway. Right? Unbelievable. So we thought about this and we said, it's kind of obvious, right? The better the technology gets, the less reliable the driver is going to get. So by just ______ the cars incrementally smarter, we're probably not going to see the wins we really need.

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Original Text

So back in 2013, we had the first test of a self-driving car where we let regular people use it. Well, almost regular — they were 100 Googlers, but they weren't working on the project. And we gave them the car and we allowed them to use it in their daily lives. But unlike a real self-driving car, this one had a big asterisk with it: They had to pay attention, because this was an experimental vehicle. We tested it a lot, but it could still fail. And so we gave them two hours of training, we put them in the car, we let them use it, and what we heard back was something awesome, as someone trying to bring a product into the world. Every one of them told us they loved it. In fact, we had a Porsche driver who came in and told us on the first day, "This is completely stupid. What are we thinking?" But at the end of it, he said, "Not only should I have it, everyone else should have it, because people are terrible drivers." So this was music to our ears, but then we started to look at what the people inside the car were doing, and this was eye-opening. Now, my favorite story is this gentleman who looks down at his phone and realizes the battery is low, so he turns around like this in the car and digs around in his backpack, pulls out his laptop, puts it on the seat, goes in the back again, digs around, pulls out the charging cable for his phone, futzes around, puts it into the laptop, puts it on the phone. Sure enough, the phone is charging. All the time he's been doing 65 miles per hour down the freeway. Right? Unbelievable. So we thought about this and we said, it's kind of obvious, right? The better the technology gets, the less reliable the driver is going to get. So by just making the cars incrementally smarter, we're probably not going to see the wins we really need.

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