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Its Steve Jobs vs Wozniak. One is a really good salesman who is not a complete idiot but over time begins to feel like he is the smartest man in the room because of sycophants. The other is a brilliant scientist who just enjoys doing research and working on technology. Why are you even trying...

We discussed that earlier. It is not so tiny; it can cause catastrophic accidents. Manhole covers are prevalent in every major city with underground utility infrastructure.

It's not as binary as you want to make it. Waymo's will not (shouldn't) run a red light, but it will if that is the "safest" action needed to get out of a situation. We know remote assistance can "override" certain actions Waymo wouldn't traditionally do. That's not to say they don't make...

An impressive demonstration of pose estimation and scene understanding by Waymo.

I’m fully aware what he’s talking about and I’m saying you cannot hide how bad your system performs on public roads. It is literally impossible and has been proven time and time again. Disengagement just means the system was disengaged. It could be for any given reason. We’ve had people on this...

You're in this very thread talking about it, there is no secret. These systems are being tested on public roads so none of these companies who are testing L4 systems on public road can hide how bad their systems are. Uber couldn't hide, Cruise couldn't hide it and Waymo who has been doing this...

Disengagement reports are useful in evaluating these systems. If a safety personnel was in the driver's seat, they would have rightly disengaged the system when it makes those mistakes so they will count as disengagements. We are talking about L4 systems without safety personnel in the loop...

Yea a lot of people seem to think robo taxi is just driving but there is an infrastructure and logistics behind the service itself that needs to be solved. What impressed me the most was how very little time between when you request a car to when one is dispatched out by the dispatcher which I...

How Waymo operates autonomously in the Depot. Basically, the cars go back to the depot to wait autonomously and leave when called for a pickup. Most of the depot operations like parking to charge are autonomous as well. Pretty detailed video that’s never been shown before of waymo operations.

Faster and faster expansion.

Yup, i hope all AV companies are solving for this too, it can be really bad. I don't really consider this to be an edge case but that's just my assumption that it occurs more often than people realize. In big cities where there are lot of utility line underground like NY.

We don't need to complicate it. It drove over an open manhole cover and the tire either went in or lifted a partially open lid and the undercarriage got damaged. Just a reminder of how bad it can be depending on fast you are going.

In 2017 Google published The Transformer architecture paper Attention is All you Need, which kick started much of the AI revolution including GPT, FSD, Generative AI that we all use today. They are back at it again with another paper for a new architecture called Griffin, which they claim...

That is a very clean parking maneuver. Took ~20 seconds from discovering where it wanted to park to completing the parking.

Waymo and Uber are expanding on their partnership and offering Uber Eats food delivery with autonomous Waymo vehicles Starting today.