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Were you able to determine if the car is capable of being manually driven as well? Or is it self-driving only?

I chuckled a bit trying to imagine a situation where the SDC logic would conclude that it was necessary to floor the accelerator up to 124MPH.



Yes. One thing that will happen is that people will not care anymore about how fast it accelerates but more about how smooth it goes. You don't want to spill that wine glass on you.


It's a regular ('manually driven') consumer vehicle being produced by Jaguar Land Rover - it has been adapted by Waymo for self driving.

https://www.jaguar.co.uk/jaguar-range/i-pace/index.html


The photos seem to show quite clearly a steering wheel and wing mirrors...

I'd guess these cars are being designed to have the self driving system as an addon that can be removed/redesigned in the future as the tech evolves.


The I-PACE is being by Jaguar sold to consumers (at 64k quid a pop, not cheap) so the answer must be yes, manually driven. It's in the article.


> not cheap

Well, if every Tom, Dick and Rajiv thinks it's being driven by a computer and they can cut it off ...


A new meaning to "manual or automatic"!




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