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The End of Starsky Robotics(medium.com)
357 points by stefan8r 7y ago|156 comments
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by stefan8r 7y ago
Starsky CEO here. Not an unrealistic thought at all. My childish/idealistic personal thesis is that if you think 10-20% more, you can make "doing the right thing" into "doing the long-term profitable thing." Most
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by stefan8r 7y ago
Starsky CEO here: surprisingly it's both. Truck drivers have limited productivity (freight rates set by the market, cant drive more than one truck at a time), but it's also a large fragmented industry where many players have a ze
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by stefan8r 7y ago
Starsky CEO here: Currently, cargo theft is less of an issue than F&F would have you believe, and unfortunately seems more driver related than land piracy. It certainly is something that I think of, but safety engineering requires simpl
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Starsky Robotics Is Hiring VP Engineering, Senior Controls, Software Engineers
1 points by stefan8r 8y ago
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by stefan8r 9y ago
Not that I know of: none of those folks have actually taken the person out of the vehicle, and getting someone in the truck is the main problem the industry faces. Similar some of to the others - we've hauled freight autonomously (we&#
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by stefan8r 9y ago
You DARPA Grand Challenge guys certainly built some impressive stuff back then, and it's hard to shake a stick at what those teams accomplished. The problem is, most of the industry has spent the last decade adding neat features and tr
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by stefan8r 9y ago
TuSimple has definitely been doing some great stuff. We did a similar test (w/freight) for the first time in January 2017...have have been doing that a lot over the last 15 months
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by stefan8r 9y ago
That's a fair thought when you compare unmanned trucks to O/Os, who really do bust their butts to make sure the freight gets there. The use case that we're solving to is the big company driver who, at the first sight of troub
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by stefan8r 9y ago
We started doing that in April of last year, is how it's different.
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Starsky just drove a fully unmanned truck down the road(linkedin.com)
1 points by stefan8r 9y ago|0 comments
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by stefan8r 9y ago
There's an initiative to move to autopilot for trains, or Positive Train Control. The US Gov't started the initiative in 2008 after a particularly gnarly train accident which killed 25 people. It was due to be rolled out in 2015
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by stefan8r 9y ago
This is Stefan, from Starsky Robotics. I hear this all the time, and honestly in many cases a truck is the transportation of last resort. If you need 5 shipping containers of goods going from A->B all arriving at Time X; it's proba
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by stefan8r 10y ago
Starsky Robotics | San Francisco | Full time | Onsite with relocation assistance available We're making driverless trucks a reality, and have autonomously moved freight on the highway. We need help with: Commercial Truck Driver Comput