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People on HN routinely debunk the myth that that autonomous motorcycle was some unmatched achievement.
by RodericDay 9y ago
People on HN routinely debunk the myth that that autonomous motorcycle was some unmatched achievement.
- whyenot 9y agoI've been on HN for years and have never seen "people" make such a debunking. But of course, in the abstract, "people" say lots of things...
- edmccard 9y agoHere's one from 'kchoudhu late last month[1]. Alas, no. The 2005 Grand Challenge was divided into two parts: the national qualification event, where you went around an obstacle course on a closed raceway in an effort to qualify for a limited number of race slots, and the real race, which was a brutal 150 mile course through some pretty gnarly desert terrain. Blue Team never made it past the NQE, which is why everyone's obsession with the motorbike makes no sense to those of us who actually made it to the real deal. The Smithsonian's decision to memorialize Levandowski's engineering mediocrity is, to say the least, puzzling. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14216609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14216609
- r00fus 9y agoLevandowski is surely a smart guy, but the fact that smarts alone in this day and age rarely get you to where his is now. Who is he connected to?