Is this very impressive? SF to LA, unless you're traveling on local roads, is essentially all freeway. And pretty much one long road at that. Hop on I-5 or 101 or even the 1 and, in the words of The Simpsons, "sit back and feel your ass grow" for five hours. Self driving folks have been saying that highways driving has always been pretty straightforward for essentially a decade now. Perhaps I'm being cynical, but "completing an extremely well-traveled, uncomplicated route without error" doesn't seem like much of an accomplishment in the year 2021.
The article title is misleading. There was an intervention in LA to avoid debris on the road (“suddenly revealed” after car moved out of the way) and another case where the car acted incorrectly but the driver chose not to intervene so they could have an intervention-free trip.<p>(This is according to the article body; I didn’t study the video.)
PlusAI drove a truck across the country without intervention.<p><a href="https://plus.ai/Plus-ai-Completes-First-Cross-Country-Commercial-Freight.html" rel="nofollow">https://plus.ai/Plus-ai-Completes-First-Cross-Country-Commer...</a><p>Tesla needs to up its game.
What does this actually feel like for a driver?<p>I imagine that spending hours letting the car drive itself while only making sure the car doesn't do something stupid might be less enjoyable than driving for hours.