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I don't know if Elon Musk's nonsense was involved - they had their own autonomous driving project in-house didn't they?
by smcl 4y ago
I don't know if Elon Musk's nonsense was involved - they had their own autonomous driving project in-house didn't they?
- nowherebeen 4y agoHave you forgetton the whole Google lawsuit against Uber? Anthony Levandowski. Uber’s self driving project is still no where near production ready.
- lozenge 4y agoWhat does that have to do with Musk? Musk never worked at Google and Tesla s self driving technology lacks key sensors compared to what Waymo and Uber were working with.
- fallingknife 4y ago
- jmeister 4y ago/u/failingknife, I cannot reply to you, but thanks for making only relevant comment on this entire thread.
- rightbyte 4y agoYou copy pasted something you were about to write on Reddit?
- smcl 4y agoThe person they were replying to was flagged, so you may not see it unless you set showdead in your profile
- smcl 4y agoI can't see why it's relevant. We're talking about Uber's bet on self-driving cars and this person commented with an bitter, offtopic gripe about how they think HN commenters are losers.
- smcl 4y agoI think you mis-read - I'm saying they did have a self-driving car project, not that they didn't. And yeah nobody has production ready self-driving tech, it wouldn't surprise me if they had canned it.
- nowherebeen 4y agoOh you are right. I definitely mis-read your comment. Apologies.
- snowpiercer 4y agoSo the self driving talk was all a lie ?
- smcl 4y agoI don't know which part you mean, so you might have to clarify. But I don't think they were lying about having a self-driving car program - as someone else mentioned there was a pretty famous lawsuit about this very topic. I don't really remember much about how far along they claimed to be, but it's definitely possible they exaggerated how successful their efforts were - so that could be construed as lying I guess? But it's a tough nut to crack, as evidenced by Tesla's ongoing FSD problems.
- mst 4y agoIt was ... over-optimistic. I would -suspect- that we'll get full self driving -eventually-, but which of the companies attempting it will succeed first and how many years from now I have no idea.
- kibibu 4y agoYes, they quite famously killed a person
- Traubenfuchs 4y agoJust forget about me naming him. What I really meant was simply the whole autonomous driving bubble that just had him as its figurehead.