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by ra7 2y ago
> I just don't think it's in Google's DNA to be highly profitable outside of a few businesses I've often wondered if this was the reason why the entity Alphabet was created, with X projects to "graduating"
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by ra7 2y ago
Thank you! You just convinced me to get one.
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by ra7 2y ago
I’ve been looking to try an CGM to see how all those factors affect my blood sugar. Is Dexcom Stelo the best available OTC? How do you like the analytics in the app?
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by ra7 2y ago
They are only considering claims for vehicles registered to addresses in those zip codes. How many drive a car that's locally registered but don't reside there? Not enough to be statistically significant, I would think.
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by ra7 2y ago
> - Never drive on unfamiliar roads > - Never drive on the freeway --- i.e. at high speed where reaction times are more limited. The paper says human benchmark being used is only from the zip codes Waymo operate in, so they are quite
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Swiss Re study: Waymo is safer than even the most advanced human-driven vehicles(waymo.com)
41 points by ra7 2y ago|41 comments
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by ra7 2y ago
Nope. But feel free to add something substantial to what I said.
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by ra7 2y ago
GM believed Kyle Vogt when he was hyping up their tech by having small, meaningless deployments in a dozen cities and promising $1B revenue by 2025. Then they had that incident and GM found out exactly how far behind Waymo they are. Waymo i
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by ra7 2y ago
It's in the article. Random circuit sampling benchmark: https://research.google/blog/validating-random-circuit-sampl...
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by ra7 2y ago
Not if CyberCab doesn’t have working software. FSD has a disengagement rate in the doubt digits according to community trackers. They are a long way away from reliability needed to remove the driver. They won’t be “blowing past” anyone fo
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by ra7 2y ago
Slight correction: FSD is Level 2, not Level 3.
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by ra7 2y ago
They don’t have enough cars.
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by ra7 2y ago
Your understanding is wrong. They work perfectly well when road features change and the cars are able to update maps in real time. See https://waymo.com/blog/2020/09/the-waymo-driver-handbook-map...
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by ra7 2y ago
To owning just the self driving stack and not the physical operations of running a robotaxi service.
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by ra7 2y ago
> Same route and same time of day. Just a small difference: one of them did it without a driver.
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by ra7 2y ago
Not yet. Freeway rides are open to employees only for now, so I'd imagine it's pretty close to being available to the public.
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by ra7 2y ago
> In what way is it non working at this point? Because you're in the driver's seat supervising at all times? If it worked fully autonomously, you would be in the backseat.
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by ra7 2y ago
The pivot has already happened. They’re handing over Austin and Atlanta to Uber, and now Phoenix and Miami to Moove. The only places they will continue to own operations for at least the next year are SF and LA.
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Next stop: Miami(waymo.com)
225 points by ra7 2y ago|311 comments
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Hesai reportedly plans to cut LiDAR prices by half next year(just-auto.com)
1 points by ra7 2y ago|0 comments
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by ra7 2y ago
Except when getting rid of something results in a non-working system. Reduced complexity doesn't work as evidenced by Tesla's inability to have a single driverless mile after nearly a decade of development.
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by ra7 2y ago
Extremely controlled environments like the entire city of San Francisco? Sensor fusion is a thing. There are no two systems that “argue with each other”. I can’t believe the same old ignorant tropes are still making rounds.
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by ra7 2y ago
New vehicles and setting up depot operations.
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by ra7 2y ago
According to NHTSA, about half of all fatal crashes occur at night, even though only 25% of driving happens at nighttime. So yes, we are pretty bad at this.
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by ra7 2y ago
Chinese OEMs (BYD, Xaomi, Nio) use lidar in almost all of their mid to premium segments. Also, Polestar 3.
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by ra7 2y ago
> Is that because their vision fails to provide the information necessary to drive safely? In certain conditions, yes. Humans drive terribly in dark and low light, something lidar excels in.
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by ra7 2y ago
Google killing off Waymo by giving them $5.6B just a few weeks ago!
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Google's response to DOJ's breakup proposal(blog.google)
2 points by ra7 2y ago|3 comments
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by ra7 2y ago
It doesn't work. You need to set your App Store or Play Store region to US. The Waymo app itself requires a US credit card for payment, but apparently works if you have a non-US credit card setup in your Apple/Google Pay.
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by ra7 2y ago
> is it fully autonomous? Yes. If you understood how remote assistance works, you'd agree. There are no autonomous systems that doesn't require some form on human help. The question is can the vehicle do all the driving tasks a

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