_Fricken

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   by _Fricken 8y ago

   Yeah. Cruise is an engineering disaster zone.
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   by _Fricken 8y ago

   People will die if GM/Cruise takes the safety driver out of the car. Anyone familiar with Cruise Automation's software will agree to this statement. Hopefully Waymo has done a better job.
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   by _Fricken 8y ago

   We're building the wrong thing here at Cruise. The problem is partly that incompetent engineers are influential within the organization. The team is much weaker than outsiders believe and we're lacking competent big-picture techni
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   by _Fricken 8y ago

   I am an engineer at Cruise. Our team is surprisingly weak. Particularly the early engineers (Rusty, Elliot, Juan, etc.) What we really need is better technical management to point the team in the right direction.
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   by _Fricken 8y ago

   As soon as the safety drivers aren't in the car, people will die. Cruise's software is atrocious.
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   by _Fricken 9y ago

   I work for Cruise. Our software is a bungled mess from top to bottom. For example, we have loops in our ROS node graph. Any student can tell you that the variance of the sum of two independent gaussians is the sum of the two variances. What
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   by _Fricken 9y ago

   I work at Cruise. The technology is worse than the article says it is. Much worse.
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   GM's Cruise Automation Is a Fiction(theinformation.com)

   3 points by _Fricken 9y ago|3 comments
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   by _Fricken 9y ago

   GM/Cruise developer here. GM's self-driving tech is a joke compared to Waymo's. Don't be fooled by the advertising.