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Maybe stop believing what companies say and start looking for third-party evidence that they're telling the truth

• revelation 9y ago
  That gets boring fast, if you go by the evidence the only player in the self-driving space is Google. Ironically they are the most restrained in public statements while there is a long list of pretenders announcing they'll ship in 2020 and already discussing far-fetched (entirely) philosophical scenarios, like the whole abortion of an discussion we had on "should the car hit pedestrians or save its driver". The whole conversation is unfortunately poisoned by endless wishful thinking instead of discussing hard evidence. I mean there is still a large proportion of people on here who think Tesla will somehow leapfrog Google because they have all those cars out there streaming the raw video data from their umpteen cameras back to Tesla HQ, utilizing an imaginary mobile communications standard that leapfrogs LTE by two orders of magnitude that they invented alongside their LIDAR-less L5 autonomous car software in record time.
  • cmrdporcupine 9y ago
    Thank you, this is exactly spot on. My personal skepticism on this subject has made me very unpopular at parties (well I don't actually go to parties, but you know) where lots of techy types go. Also earned me lots of downvotes here.
  • bobsil1 9y ago
    They're bulk uploads over home WiFi, and Tesla hired plenty of ML names like Andrej Karpathy. Having said that, AGI is the bottleneck for full self-driving.