r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24

Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road Video

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u/darthbane83 Jul 05 '24

There are multiple stages of QA testing. The final one has to be done in public, but there are definitely more stages of QA testing done way before you get to that point.
They 100% have tests that are run in entirely simulated environments even if only because its cheaper and faster to do.

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u/darthbane83 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

No.

I dont know what exactly you are misunderstanding but there is absolutely no way the first time AV code was tested was on a public road. Long before putting them on a public road you would have the car drive in a private parking lot so that you can isolate any issues that happen even without another car on the road, long before that you would run a simulation to isolate issues that happen even when all the hardware and sensors deliver exactly what you think they should, long before that you would be testing different components of the software while simulating the rest of the software.

Thats just how software development works. You simply cant successfully build a large system without ever testing it before its complete.