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Cruise and Waymo’s San Francisco Robotaxi Operations Delayed by State Regulator(sfstandard.com)
24 points by ra7 3y ago|5 comments
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by ra7 3y ago
Great response, thank you!
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by ra7 3y ago
Thanks for the book recommendation! I’m interested in making the same transition. Can I ask what you did to be considered for a role in ML coming from a software engineering background? Did you showcase any personal projects in your resume?
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Lidar remains the secret sauce for autonomous cars(theverge.com)
2 points by ra7 3y ago|1 comments
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by ra7 3y ago
Is that because GCP runs on Google infra and (most?) GCP services are rebranded versions of internal Google services?
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Tesla Reintroduces Radar in HW4(twitter.com)
3 points by ra7 3y ago|2 comments
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by ra7 3y ago
So is the wait time at Din Tai Fung!
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by ra7 3y ago
I’m not aware of any definition of accident that says personal injuries have to occur. But sure, you can replace accident here with collision or contact events. Also, airbag deployment doesn’t automatically mean there are injuries either. P
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by ra7 3y ago
> Liability isn't generally something that is granted, it's either there or not. If Tesla FSD causes an accident, they can absolutely be sued for that in the US. That’s not what liability means here. Assuming the story is true,
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Mercedes can sell cars in California with hands-free, eyes-off automated driving(techcrunch.com)
9 points by ra7 3y ago|1 comments
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by ra7 3y ago
> I'm googling, and not finding a reference here. As far as I can tell not one of these manufacturers (or anyone else) is shipping a consumer vehicle with a LIDAR sensor. You're just citing press releases about plans, I guess?
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by ra7 3y ago
> For myself, LIDAR is actually the technology looking like it isn't panning out. It's not getting cheaper or more reliable. This is just plain wrong. Lidar is getting cheaper by the year. They are now so cheap you’re starting
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by ra7 3y ago
And after years of neglect, they brought the one feature I really wanted in the Apple TV — ability to do FaceTime calls on the big screen.
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by ra7 3y ago
Probably. But I don’t think many were expecting Meta to dominate this space because it was always obvious that they don’t have a multi-device ecosystem like Apple does.
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by ra7 3y ago
On the contrary, they might expand Meta's market by giving "legitimacy" to AR/VR headsets. Not everyone will want to buy a $3500 Apple headset, but might try out a cheaper Meta Quest.
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Barkour: Benchmarking animal-level agility with quadruped robots(ai.googleblog.com)
3 points by ra7 3y ago|0 comments
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Tesla leak reportedly shows thousands of Full Self Driving safety complaints(theverge.com)
3 points by ra7 3y ago|0 comments
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by ra7 3y ago
You can use https://www.hnreplies.com to get notified when someone replies to your comments.
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by ra7 3y ago
Lidar works up to 300 meters. That’s plenty for highway driving. Everyone using lidar also use multiple cameras so they are getting best of both worlds (using sensor fusion).
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by ra7 3y ago
Using LiDAR means you are actually saving on compute resources since you're now getting direct distance measurements instead of inferring using ML.
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by ra7 3y ago
There are people taking rides in rain and fog, albeit only in SF and Phoenix. You can claim they haven’t put any effort into weather driving all you want, but the evidence suggests otherwise.
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by ra7 3y ago
Waymo driving in rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGbMnLCXXxU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiD9l72uFCg Waymo driving in fog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbgDTCCdL6s
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by ra7 3y ago
Good point. That would also allow them to bring true Level 4 autonomous driving to passenger cars with sufficient miniaturization of their sensor stack.
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by ra7 3y ago
> The backstory that seems to have been forgotten here is that self driving cars are still a money bleeding endeavor. It's why Uber sold its own self driving division and it's something Cruise has said in the past still needs t
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by ra7 3y ago
Google Maps already links to Waymo in the ridehail tab (but only in Phoenix): https://twitter.com/Waymo/status/1400484190064422916?s=20
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by ra7 3y ago
To clarify: they have remote assistance teams, but they cannot “take over” and control the car at all. All they can do is things like plotting a path to go around if the vehicle gets stuck. They have no ability to do safety critical interve
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by ra7 3y ago
Agreed. I’m not sure an acquisition makes sense for Waymo/Alphabet. Operating a robotaxi is technologically quite different from an Uber vehicle — mapping is different, routing is different, customer service is different (a Waymo is st
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by ra7 3y ago
From the TechCrunch news story [1]: > The collaboration with Uber gives Waymo’s self-driving technology a second path to commercialization. As Katherine Barna, head of PR at Waymo, told TechCrunch, Waymo is “building a Driver, not a vehi
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To Compete with China on Tech, America Needs to Fix Its Immigration System(foreignaffairs.com)
4 points by ra7 3y ago|1 comments
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by ra7 3y ago
I could relate to this so much as someone who lost his AirPods a couple of weeks ago. Instead of a museum, it was an unsuccessful search through Walmart for me. Find My app now says it’s in Germany.

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