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That's a terrific post; thanks for linking. It seems like Starsky did everything right— they focused on a highly safe system for only highway driving, and an el
by mikepurvis 6y ago
That's a terrific post; thanks for linking. It seems like Starsky did everything right— they focused on a highly safe system for only highway driving, and an elaborate teleop setup for covering the last mile and exceptional conditions. Basically they just hit a wall as far as VC timelines and expectations.
But I wonder if Waymo can basically follow the same playbook and do it long enough to make it work courtesy of Google's pocketbook.
- stefan8r 6y agoCEO of Starsky here. My assumption is that they won't - Waymo has a lot of inertia around trying to build full autonomy, and it working in a corner of Phoenix seems to not have convinced that that it's way too hard. The winner in this space is almost certainly a company that hasn't been founded yet, doing an updated version of Starsky's approach...which is why I've been trying to explain Starsky's approach in detail through blogposts.