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I am surprised that no one mentions about their Waymo / Verily revenue potentials. I genuinely believe those will have even bigger potentials than ad sales for
by devy 7y ago
I am surprised that no one mentions about their Waymo / Verily revenue potentials. I genuinely believe those will have even bigger potentials than ad sales for Alphabet.
- netwanderer3 7y agoElon Musk recently said LIDAR system was just too expensive and unnecessary as he's betting on using Tesla's video cameras for their own automated driving. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
- Reedx 7y agoThat does seem likely, considering humans don't have LIDAR... Also Cornell University may have just proved this out: https://interestingengineering.com/cheap-cameras-might-be-just-as-good-as-lidar-new-study-shows https://interestingengineering.com/cheap-cameras-might-be-ju...
- UncleMeat 7y agoIf you believe that in the next few years computers will match humans on vision tasks with life or death consequences.
- ddalex 7y agohumans have a brain that's difficult to reproduce in an economical fashion so far; tech can't even saccade the current cameras to track moving objects with clarity
- Zigurd 7y agoThat's a nearly unique position among autonomous vehicle people. He's correct about LIDAR costs, for now. The question is: "How long is 'now?'" Unless there is something fundamentally wrong with the idea of MEMS LIDAR, Musk's statement is something like "Rotating memory will never be cheap enough for X" when SSDs are coming.