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Because that's where they are headquartered
by tyre 10y ago
Because that's where they are headquartered
- jayjay71 10y agoYeah, I'm thinking a lot of the engineers will be unhappy about constantly traveling (or worse, moving) to Arizona. Their self-driving engineers are now split among three locations: San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and Arizona. I think that alone is going to cause significant engineering friction. It's a lot harder to do remote work for testing live robots (especially if they can kill people).
- tyre 10y agoI'm guessing it'll be worse than a centralized team, but not too bad. The Pittsburgh team is there because of Carnegie Mellon, so likely where the hardware gets made. The software engineers in SF just need data from vehicles, which doesn't require cars to be near them. The operations folks actually going out and testing the cars can be anywhere, as long as they can stream data back to the SW and HW folks.
- Hydraulix989 10y agoThe software engineers in SF are mostly doing data science-y type work or working on UberEATS. The self-driving car ML software is also being worked on in Pittsburgh, along with the hardware.
- jayjay71 10y agoMost of the Otto engineers are still in San Francisco, and many of them are working on self-driving cars (in addition to trucks).
- Hydraulix989 10y agoOh yeah, I forgot about those guys. I do wonder what the dynamic is like between those two groups now...
- chinathrow 10y agoAlso because there are a lot of edge cases in SF.
- Hydraulix989 10y agoTake any edge cases in SF and multiply them by 10, and you get Pittsburgh. Source: I grew up in Pittsburgh, and now have lived in SF since graduation.