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There was a person in the vehicle. Amusingly - many VCs who "should know better" fell for the same error. I'd regularly get in arguments with investors about
by stefan8r 7y ago
There was a person in the vehicle. Amusingly - many VCs who "should know better" fell for the same error. I'd regularly get in arguments with investors about whether others had done unmanned or not.
- malandrew 7y agoIn the sleeper cabin monitoring the vehicle. The main cabin was unoccupied and there wasn't a single intervention for the entire trip. I knew people involved with that trip at the time.
- stefan8r 7y agoThe difference between "in the sleeper cab" and "outside the truck" are huge. We first started doing in the sleeper cab in Jul'17, took us 2 years of dedication to get confidence to remove from vehicle. To take the person out of the vehicle, the system itself needs to be able to self-monitor and pull itself over if it stops working. That's the big lift.
- malandrew 7y agoThat's it. The team at Uber did that like a year or so later but with no public fanfare because it wasn't considered noteworthy. That still puts it at ~2 years prior to this accomplishment.