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Waymo went driverless in 2020, maybe you weren't that far off. Predicting that in 2009 would have been pretty good. They could and should have had vehicles with
by modeless 2y ago
Waymo went driverless in 2020, maybe you weren't that far off. Predicting that in 2009 would have been pretty good. They could and should have had vehicles without steering wheels anytime since then, it's just a matter of hardware development. Their steering wheel free car program was derailed when they hired traditional car company executives.
- ben_w 2y agoWaymo for sure, but I meant also without any geolock etc., so I can't claim credit for my prediction. They may well best Tesla to this, though.
- IX-103 2y agoWaymo is using full lidar and other sensors, whereas Tesla is relying on pure vision systems (to the point of removing radar on newer models). So they're solving a much harder problem. As for whether it's worthwhile to solve that problem when having more sensors will always be safer, that's another issue...
- ben_w 2y agoIndeed. While it ought to be possible to solve for just RGB… making it needlessly hard for yourself is a fun hack-day side project, not a valuable business solution.