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Back when handwriting recognition was a new thing I was greatly impressed by how good it was. This was primarily because being an engineer I knew how difficult the problem is to solve. %90 recognition seemed really good to me.

When I tried to use the technology that %90 meant 1 out of every 10 things I wrote were incorrect. If it had been a keyboard I would have thrown it in the trash. That is were my Palm ended up.

People expect their technology to do things better not almost as well as a human. Waymo with LIDAR hasn't killed people. Tesla, with camera only, has done so multiple times. I will ride in a Waymo never in a Tesla self driving car.



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