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In fact, Uber is. They have a research center in Pittsburgh, which has plenty of weather and terrible roads. Cars are seen regularly dodging students around CMU
by ttmb 10y ago
In fact, Uber is. They have a research center in Pittsburgh, which has plenty of weather and terrible roads. Cars are seen regularly dodging students around CMU.
- bichiliad 10y agoThey are, and very aggressively so. They bought up a ton of CMU's research department to do so[1]. [1]: http://www.theverge.com/transportation/2015/5/19/8622831/uber-self-driving-cars-carnegie-mellon-poached http://www.theverge.com/transportation/2015/5/19/8622831/ube...
- inthewoods 10y agoThat's great to hear. Is the author's contention that Uber "doesn't have the tech" accurate?
- apendleton 10y agoThe author mentions the CMU acquisition. I think their contention is that it's not enough, because Uber doesn't have access to the kinds of vehicle telemetry data its competitors do that would be necessary to train good self-driving car models. Google, and other companies with existing advanced vehicles on the road, have thousands of cars in the wild now with suits of sensors collecting telemetry and phoning home. Uber contracts drivers who drive their own cars, so it's not benefiting in a vehicle-telemetry sense from the drives it's arranging in the way it could be and its competitors do. I think this is probably a solvable problem, though.