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>the Google Self Driving Car Cheaters How is the Google self-driving car team cheating? Or is he just being a sore loser about how his own self-driving car ve

by desdiv 10y ago

>the Google Self Driving Car Cheaters How is the Google self-driving car team cheating? Or is he just being a sore loser about how his own self-driving car venture didn't work out?

vidyesh 10y ago
I think he wants to imply that everyone who is trying to build a self driving car is working on it in house, testing and tweaking while collecting data to make it better and possible. But what Google has done is, they tried and couldn't get the ball rolling that well in the commercial market as expected and eventually they created 'Waymo' which will partner with car manufacturers who will create prototypes for them to make ride sharing autonomous cars. Which sounds more like a mashup of Tesla and Uber.
alphabettsy 10y ago
Pretty sure he abandoned the car project when he realized how much of a massive liability that was.
- rando444 10y ago
  No, not quite. They got a letter from the NHSTA asking to clarify a bunch of stuff with regard to safety, and rather than respond, they decided not to sell their product. The details are a little strange, but easily found with a quick Google search.
  - Oletros 10y ago
    That doesn't contradict what the op said
ztratar 10y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but comma.ai still exists.
commaai 10y ago
lol, comma.ai still exists and is still winning self driving cars. https://github.com/commaai/openpilot https://github.com/commaai/openpilot We have some amazing things scheduled for 2017 This repo is literally a joke for George to learn Go, in a similar vain to https://github.com/geohot/lowqualityraytracer https://github.com/geohot/lowqualityraytracer being about learning raytracing. Google is "cheating" because they are crowdsourcing labels with CAPTCHA, but then of course there's https://www.producthunt.com/posts/comma-coloring https://www.producthunt.com/posts/comma-coloring
- Oletros 10y ago
  A Github repo is not what I would call "winning the self driving cars"

by desdiv 10y ago

>the Google Self Driving Car Cheaters How is the Google self-driving car team cheating? Or is he just being a sore loser about how his own self-driving car venture didn't work out?

vidyesh 10y ago

I think he wants to imply that everyone who is trying to build a self driving car is working on it in house, testing and tweaking while collecting data to make it better and possible. But what Google has done is, they tried and couldn't get the ball rolling that well in the commercial market as expected and eventually they created 'Waymo' which will partner with car manufacturers who will create prototypes for them to make ride sharing autonomous cars. Which sounds more like a mashup of Tesla and Uber.

alphabettsy 10y ago

Pretty sure he abandoned the car project when he realized how much of a massive liability that was.

rando444 10y ago
No, not quite. They got a letter from the NHSTA asking to clarify a bunch of stuff with regard to safety, and rather than respond, they decided not to sell their product. The details are a little strange, but easily found with a quick Google search.
- Oletros 10y ago
  That doesn't contradict what the op said

ztratar 10y ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but comma.ai still exists.

commaai 10y ago

lol, comma.ai still exists and is still winning self driving cars. https://github.com/commaai/openpilot https://github.com/commaai/openpilot We have some amazing things scheduled for 2017 This repo is literally a joke for George to learn Go, in a similar vain to https://github.com/geohot/lowqualityraytracer https://github.com/geohot/lowqualityraytracer being about learning raytracing. Google is "cheating" because they are crowdsourcing labels with CAPTCHA, but then of course there's https://www.producthunt.com/posts/comma-coloring https://www.producthunt.com/posts/comma-coloring

Oletros 10y ago
A Github repo is not what I would call "winning the self driving cars"