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> Waymo’s approach of designing both hardware and software from the ground up has been crucial to our success I’m sorry, what? It’s not a success. It’s a very
by badgersnake 2y ago
> Waymo’s approach of designing both hardware and software from the ground up has been crucial to our success
I’m sorry, what? It’s not a success. It’s a very expensive piece of R&D. Success would be widespread adoption and, you know, profit.
- daemonologist 2y agoWell, they've been successful in that they seem to be far ahead of any other self-driving company* in putting level 4 vehicles on the road carrying paying customers. Whether that pans out as a viable business of course remains to be seen. (Although I expect it probably will be economically viable, and mainly a matter of getting the public to be indifferent to fatalities the way we are for human drivers.) * I think maybe Mobileye is the nearest while being pretty far back, but I'm not too familiar with what's going on outside the US.
- abenga 2y agoWho else has achieved what they have?
- badgersnake 2y agoWhat spent a lot of money building something that doesn’t work very well and doesn’t make any money? Loads of people.
- minwcnt5 2y agoIt works phenomenally well. I use it several times a week.
- zooq_ai 2y agoWaymo does 100,000 per week Other cars / services in US : ZERO