> Self driving cars don't have to be perfect. They just have to be safer then driving is today
But how is Google or any other manufacturer going to test their software updates? Are they going to test-drive their cars for tens of thousands of miles over and over again for every little update?
Google's cars drive millions of miles daily in simulation already. They take sensor data (including LIDAR) from past drives and essentially redrive their entire dataset with the updated software.
But if a new update changes how the car drives, wouldn't the data that would've been captured by the updated car be different than what the old outdated car recorded?
For example if the new update makes the car more aggressive, then other real drivers might be more careful, slow down more, etc compared to the original runs?
