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Have you forgetton the whole Google lawsuit against Uber? Anthony Levandowski. Uber’s self driving project is still no where near production ready.

lozenge 4y ago
What 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 ago
    You copy pasted something you were about to write on Reddit?
    - smcl 4y ago
      The person they were replying to was flagged, so you may not see it unless you set showdead in your profile
  - smcl 4y ago
    I 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 ago
I 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 ago
  Oh you are right. I definitely mis-read your comment. Apologies.
- snowpiercer 4y ago
  So the self driving talk was all a lie ?
  - smcl 4y ago
    I 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 ago
    It 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.

lozenge 4y ago

What 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 ago
  You copy pasted something you were about to write on Reddit?
  - smcl 4y ago
    The person they were replying to was flagged, so you may not see it unless you set showdead in your profile
- smcl 4y ago
  I 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 ago

I 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 ago
Oh you are right. I definitely mis-read your comment. Apologies.
snowpiercer 4y ago
So the self driving talk was all a lie ?
- smcl 4y ago
  I 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 ago
  It 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.