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There's active disdain (or at least snide jokes) among the senior Waymo engineers for the approach to autonomous driving taken by Tesla. I can't see a partnersh

There's active disdain (or at least snide jokes) among the senior Waymo engineers for the approach to autonomous driving taken by Tesla. I can't see a partnership in the cards, probably ever. Source: used to work there

louprado 8y ago
How would the engineers at Waymo know Tesla's trade-secret approach beyond the physical hardware ? Tesla is the only major player in the race to autonomous cars that has no patent. Waymo has 145.[1] [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/a-tesla-self-driving-blind-spot-that-few-are-focusing-on.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/a-tesla-self-driving-blind-s...
- grogenaut 8y ago
  I'm betting a bunch of them own Tesla's (status symbols). You can tell a lot about a system just by using it and testing it.
- plankers 8y ago
  Some of them used to work at Tesla. They also take issue with the use of lossy sonar and the failure to incorporate lidar.
Filligree 8y ago
I can understand why there might be. Source: Watched a presentation on the computational aspects recently.