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> On the train home, I leaned into Ian and recounted the interaction. What sexists, I said. How dare they be so dismissive, just because I was a woman—just beca
by KKKKkkkk1 7y ago
> On the train home, I leaned into Ian and recounted the interaction. What sexists, I said. How dare they be so dismissive, just because I was a woman—just because I did customer support and was considered nontechnical. Ian cringed and pulled me closer. “You’re not going to like this,” he said. “But you were trying to talk shit about self-driving cars with some of the first engineers ever to build one.”
I wonder who are these engineers who claimed to have built a self-driving car in 2013. Because we're in 2019 and self-driving cars still require two drivers to operate them.
- artsyca 7y agoagile methodology -- first build a skateboard, then a scooter, then a bicycle then a Tesla -- they were probably building an MVP ref: https://m.dotdev.co/the-agile-bicycle-829a83b18e7 https://m.dotdev.co/the-agile-bicycle-829a83b18e7
- artsyca 7y agoI'm being sarcastic by the way -- that shit doesn't work
- glalonde 7y agoPresumably early waymo. Ian probably worked for bot & dolly which was bought by Google.
- a_imho 7y agoWith the benefit of hindsight the shit talk was pretty spot on?
- hobofan 7y agoLimited-capability self-driving cars have existed for quite some time, like in the DARPA Grand Challenge[0]. One could definitely see the people who competed there as "some of the first people to ever build a self-driving car". [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge