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It feels like a lot of what Uber does these days is just hyping up the stock price. Of course that is a very short term strategy, if your ever more audacious an
by aedron 10y ago
It feels like a lot of what Uber does these days is just hyping up the stock price. Of course that is a very short term strategy, if your ever more audacious announcements keep falling flat. We saw a lot of this in the last throes of the dot-com bubble, before the inevitable implosion.
As for this announcement, does Uber have any credibility in this field, which combines the most individually complex AI, robotics and regulatory work that has ever been attempted? Hell, in any non-trivial engineering feats?
Also, Volvo has very active ongoing self-driving research going on. I have to wonder how much of this is Uber's supposed crack team of field experts, and how much is simply a partnership with Volvo delivering the technology.
- linkregister 10y agoThey have acquired their way into credibility. They controversially hired the majority of the CMU robotics laboratory in order to start ATC. They also hired a number of Google self-driving engineers, including the former head of the self-driving effort. Today Uber announced their acquisition of Otto, a self-driving truck company. The ATC is isolated from the rest of Uber. Volvo has been working on self-driving cars for years; before the Uber ATC effort. Regulatory work is one thing that Uber excels at. To be fair, Google also hired/poached most of its self-driving experts from university robotics laboratories.