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Kyle Vogt has failed and Cruise is a catastrophe. Fine, if you want to judge Vogt on a CEO-friendliness scale, how to scam a company into paying billions of do
by matthewfelgate 3y ago
Kyle Vogt has failed and Cruise is a catastrophe.
Fine, if you want to judge Vogt on a CEO-friendliness scale, how to scam a company into paying billions of dollars for a no return, or how to occasionally posts on Hacker News / Reddit like a "Real Human" TM then feel free to consider him/Cruise a huge success.
In the real world Cruise currently has 0 cars giving 0 people driverless rides. The game is over. The mask has been lifted. It's over. Cruise tried to expand too quickly without the technology, profitability or safety to match. And has now crashed and burned. Now, this may be controversial, but maybe the CEO of such a company bares some responsibility for that?
I know what the replies will be: shut up random poster! Vogt built a $1 Billion dollar company from his garage, that is success by anyone's standard. But by that same standard Theranos was a success, for a time... Now both are virtually worthless.
At some point we have to start judging the success of self-driving companies by their profitability not by their PR.
- matthewfelgate 3y agoThis comes across harsher than I expected and I'm not sure I would have done much different to Vogt had I been in his position. He seems like someone I want to be friends with. I don't know the details. I just want self-driving to succeed.