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by jayjay71 10y ago
>Given that Uber bought CMU's self-driving car research department This is a common misconception. Uber poached several engineers from NREC, which technically belongs to CMU, but for all practical purposes is an independent entit
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by jayjay71 10y ago
What do you think will be the use cases for the Hololens in the short and long term? I've yet to try it, but I've heard mostly good things.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
A large part of why the original Skunk Works was so successful is because Kelly Johnson, and later Ben Rich, did not care about outward appearances. They had a job and they did it (and they made it profitable). Here's a great book on
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by jayjay71 10y ago
I don't know what happened internally. But if that happened internally and they weren't willing to announce it externally, that shows they are concerned with appearances. And if that didn't happen internally then they have
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Owning up to mistakes is the fastest way to make progress. Waiting so long to admit that a project failed worries me. X is supposed to be a moonshot factory, where failures are celebrated and reality dictates that the majority of their un
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by jayjay71 10y ago
I don't see it that way - the acquisition was public and there were articles on the project in the past. http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/2/8131145/googles-titan-drone...
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by jayjay71 10y ago
I think what's sad is not that they shut down the project soon after acquiring Titan Aerospace, but that they kept it quiet for almost a year. That sort of PR practice makes me worry about their internal culture. Edit: It concerns me
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by jayjay71 10y ago
So long as the investors are here (and often times require you to move to get funded), the startups will be here.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
> it's a brutally efficient market I disagree. You're assuming that every startup gets funded. I think this is wrong. Just because there are lots of terrible startups that get funding, doesn't mean there aren't gre
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by jayjay71 10y ago
> let's not forget that it's at least 10x if not 100x harder to be a good VC than a good entrepreneur Why do you say that?
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by jayjay71 10y ago
I'm curious: when do you think a stage 3, 4, and 5 vehicle will be readily available on the market (specifically the United States)?
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Neat! I stand corrected. I wonder if the map data they have all over the country/world/wherever is comparable to the cities they test their cars in. If so, that would be fantastic.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Some left to start their own companies, some went to Uber, and some haven't publicly stated yet. Everything I said is easy to verify via Google (there are articles written about it). The heavy hitters are Sebastian Thrun who left man
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Why do you assume those other things are harder to detect? Computer vision is tough, and human detection is one of the most researched problems in the field. Uber's self-driving cars were running red lights not too long ago. And it&
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Google Street View contains images, not point clouds. And based on my usage, it's updated roughly every year. This is not even close to sufficient for their self-driving cars.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
> They even demoed it. Sort of. "Quanergy has not yet demonstrated a version of the S3 that performs to the specifications that they announced at their press conference" http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Makani. They are trying to effectively change the energy industry using kites. It is ridiculously ambitious.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
This information is not current, but I know that they used to detect traffic lights by looking for them in their maps. By that I mean they knew where the traffic light should be, then did the basic geometry to figure out where that is in t
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Time will tell, but I think the biggest red flag for Google/Waymo was how many senior personnel left the project in the last year. It wasn't just a few people - it was almost anybody that had been named in every previous press re
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Enlighten me.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
How do you think the new governments will unfold? Will there be gradual changes in multiple countries around the world, or will there be violent uprisings? Historically speaking, at least in the United States, the citizens are far less pow
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by jayjay71 10y ago
The DARPA Robotics Challenge was actually inspired by the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, because it was unsafe for any humans to go there and people were surprised that no robots were capable of going themselves. Of course, we still have a lo
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by jayjay71 10y ago
I agree, and that's great! But when a company sells a feature called Autopilot, and it's marketed as a car that drives itself, I have an issue when someone dies and the company spins bad statistics to defend its practice. Increme
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Autobraking is a great technology that has been around for a few years (BMW was selling it in 2013), but nobody touted it as a self-driving feature. My point isn't that working on this technology is bad, my point is people expect it t
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by jayjay71 10y ago
I think self-driving cars have incredible potential, but the media hype is just too strong around this technology. People are used to startups going from 0 to unicorn in 5+ years, because they are often based on simple technologies and bus
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by jayjay71 10y ago
That was my thought when I started watching the show, but as you watch more episodes you realize why the creator didn't go that route. I don't want to spoil it for anybody that isn't a regular viewer.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
30 Rock has a great scene making fun of this very scenario. It doesn't seem to be readily available online, although it's on the episode ¡Qué Sorpresa! for those interested. Then Forbes wrote an article explaining why this can n
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Because they don't know any better. The goal is to reach people that otherwise don't have the means to invest in startups - they have money, but not expertise. While I love the idea of crowdsourced equity investing, I think a lot
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by jayjay71 10y ago
I agree with you, but that is the new standard. The NHTSA used to have a much stricter definition, but have since adapted the SAE standards.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
The article specifies Level 4 autonomy, which means: The automated system can control the vehicle in all but a few environments such as severe weather. The driver must enable the automated system only when it is safe to do so. When enabled,

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