I agree the description is incomplete. However, I’ve had this situation more than once in SF traffic. You’re on one of the many narrow streets moving at walking speed. The driver in front of you without signaling (typical in SF) decides to turn left. You end up stuck in the crosswalk waiting for the turn to be…

One of the things I notice in most of these stories about autonomous vehicles is their focus on the wrong metrics. The issue isn’t whether such systems will fail. The issue is whether they fail more often than a human driver. Your report of constant intervention my humans and implying it’s a problem with the system is…

Hinkie’s real sin was that he wasn’t a “sports” guy and was (and is) honest about how much guesswork was involved in trying to create a great team. Hinkie understood analytics and probability. He knew, for example, that the biggest reason the Spurs look so smart is that they lucked into a once in a generation big man…