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That's not quite as interesting to me as the fact that no one has cracked this nut yet. No one. You've got the top tech companies on the planet trying to be fir
by X86BSD 9y ago
That's not quite as interesting to me as the fact that no one has cracked this nut yet. No one. You've got the top tech companies on the planet trying to be first and as of yet not one of them has managed it. I thought Apple would be first or a close second with a better and more refined solution. But they have supposedly given up on the larger picture and are focusing on the software.
If I was an engineer this is clearly where I would seek to work, this is obviously one of the harder tech problems to solve.
- mrDmrTmrJ 9y agoYou're spot on. Autonomous driving (level 4/5) has been demo'ed by a few players at low speeds, but no-one has a product to market yet. While Google/Waymo currently seems to be farthest, it will take 10 years for clear winners to emerge. One of Zoox advantages (compared to Apple) is that as a pure play autonomous driving company they can retain focus over long time scales. The Apple project seems to have changed focus multiple times.
- phlipski 9y agoI'm reminded a bit of the engineering challenges of the original "Star Wars" program during the Reagan administration. I recall an engineer being quoted as saying, "They're trying to solve 10 manhattan projects at once" in order to get the whole system working. Self driving autonomous cars that present a near 0 chance of failure based upon current environmental conditions (traffic/bad drivers/weather/etc..) is a huge challenge.