I think googles could care less about what darpa is doing. How would I know? I'm a darpa PM and google isn't reaching out to me or my team. I think what you ar

I think googles could care less about what darpa is doing. How would I know? I'm a darpa PM and google isn't reaching out to me or my team. I think what you are seeing is correlation but not causation. Stanford was working on self driving long before darpa, same with cmu. The darpa money was just a bonus but I don't think it pushed anything ahead. After the first few years of the darpa challenge, many teams were able to finish. Yet here we are in 2025 and I cam get bounding box detections on video to not jitter or drop between frames because of some unlucky pixel combination. Humans have zero issues and aren't even able to perceive these minute differences. My guess is vision will be solve in about 18 months using methods developed purely in industry.