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by Fricken 1y ago
The tubes were shut down due to a transit workers strike recently in London. Here's what the streets looked like: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F2... Now imagine if all those commuters were
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When Tesla introduced HW2 it was clear to people in the self-driving industry that it wouldn't work out. Elon was insistent on repeating mistakes that other companies had already learned from. Of course the other companies never consid
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Probably not. Cruise was nixed by GM execs, whom I believe were looking for whatever excuse they could find to shut the operation down. They simply couldn't afford to stay in the game for the long haul. Cruise was under pressure to app
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Tesla was SAE level 2 in 2013, and they are still SAE level 2. Waymo's Robotaxis are SAE level 4, and they can drive on public roads empty with no human supervision, both technically and legally.
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The Coca-Cola company sells even more units than Tesla, but if those units don't drive themselves they're moot to this discussion.
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All of those spaces are actively being explored by various companies.
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Corporations, governments and citizens all love passing the buck on climate change. It's a serious matter and also it's somebody else's job.
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An L4 LLM in my mind, would be one that can perform fully autonomously at some domain specific job, a job being a collection of tasks that have to come together coherently to achieve a desired goal. Waymo's robotaxis, likewise, are abl
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SAE Level 2 automated vehicles are useful now, just not so useful that it's safe to take one's eyes off the road and hands off the wheel. LLMs are in a similar place, and still a long way from doing the whole job reliably by thems
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I've been following progress on self-driving cars since the 2004 and 2005 Darpa Challenges. Things were very exciting in the 2011-2015 timeframe. Demos were mindblowing. Engineers were giddy. The auto industry went from laughing to sha
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Drivers mostly hate other drivers but they do occasionally take some time to hate other road users as well.
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>There's a lot of diversity in terms of other on-board hardware, software architecture, and the role of geospatial data in the AV system I'm curious to know where you get information on stuff like this. The Google self-driving
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https://archive.ph/Upem9 Well what do you know? I've been taking coffee naps sporadically for 30 years, pretty much my whole adult life.
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>No consensus on the technology approach Waymo, Cruise, Zoox, Pony.ai, Baidu's Apollo, Argo.ai and Aurora all have/had very similar approaches to the technology. Tesla is the major outlier and they haven't accomplished muc
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by Fricken 1y ago
I don't have kids. The homeless district is easy to avoid, and there's a k-12 school right on the edge of it with many kids walking, cycling and taking the bus to school. I've never heard of a serious incident involving homel
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If I see your wife and kids in trouble I'll intervene, don't worry. Of course, motor vehicle crashes are the second biggest killer of kids after guns. I don't know where homeless people sit on the threat scale but it's a
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My daily bicycle commute takes me right through the heart of my city's homeless district, and like with many cities things have gotten a lot worse since COVID. Cars are far and away the biggest threat to my safety, and the source of al
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The Rohingya claim they've been living in the region for over a millenium, and presumably they were able to go the whole way without getting genocided, up until Facebook arrived, that is. >For years, Facebook, now called Meta Platfo
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I didn't argue anything, I gave you a history lesson.
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I worked as a sculptor of styrofoam for a few months in my student days. The sculptures would be sprayed with a hard enamel coating, then painted and delivered to mini-golf courses, amusement parks etc all over North America. We made kitsch
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by Fricken 1y ago
Not too long ago there were over 5 dozen startups in the automotive grade lidar space. Lidar is now much cheaper and smaller, but still very conspicuous and still too expensive to be putting in every vehicle.
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Upon their founding 9 years ago I had Pony.ai pegged as the robotaxi outfit most likely to succeed in China. I stopped paying attention and they've gone public –so maybe it's time to start paying attention again! For a retail inve
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At that time Lidar was too expensive and ugly to be putting in every car. Robust Lidar for SAE level 4 autonomous vehicles is still not cheap and still pretty ugly.
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Sterling Anderson was the first autopilot director, and he was fired for insisting on Lidar. Elon sued Sterling Anderson, then hired the bootlick Karpathy to help him grease chumps.
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I was following Killian last year on instagram while he was doing his link-up of the 4,000 metre peaks in the Alps. It was quite the inspiration as I was on an adventure of my own, cycling with a friend 1000 miles over 10 days between Vanco
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That happens when c-suite starts calling shots at the expense of the creatives. It's something Netflix has been doing from the beginning, and something A24 has been trying to avoid since the beginning. Of course A24 going to be biased
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GM execs shut Cruise down. I suspect they were just looking for an excuse.
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The US won WWII because of it's industrial dominance, they didn't even have much of a military before the war, they built it when it was needed. Since WWII the US war machine has been used primarily for bullying much weaker powers
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I know nothing of Chinese property rights, but they must be strong or they wouldn't have the phenomenon of nail houses: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/apr/15/china...

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