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Waymo and Uber are more likely to have beat them to it (lidar) than Tesla, but point very much taken.
by azernik 9y ago
Waymo and Uber are more likely to have beat them to it (lidar) than Tesla, but point very much taken.
- mikeyouse 9y agoNeither of those companies make cars.. The article is about actually putting a "self-driving" (however they define it) car through a proper manufacturing engineering environment to develop something that can scale to hundreds of thousands of cars per year. Redesigning the software of a production car and actually integrating the tech at the factory-level gets you much closer to a mass-volume car than making some fancy software with a sensor package that you bolt to the top of a minivan.
- cracell 9y agoKinda seems like putting the cart before the horse though. Despite what the mountain of "Autonomous vehicles are around the corner" PR articles say there's still a lot of problems to be worked out before we see any fully autonomous vehicles for sale. And you need to work out your prototypes issues before you start mass producing something so that you mass produce something that you can actually sell.