They’re mobile spyware belonging to an alphabet agency.
That probably is not so comforting when one of them is in control of half a ton of metal, plastic and glass in public.
Safer than ChatGPT you say? Wow…
That isn’t a high bar.
LIDAR, baby!
lidar Deez nuts
gottem
But they didnt move fast at all. I saw people driving Waymo’a for years before I saw the first automated one hit the streets. They took their damn time which I am sure was expensive and worth it.
yea right. time will tell.
There is a very large safety difference between Waymo and Tesla robotaxis right now.
teslas looked safe for a while though. imma take my time.
Tesla robotaxis had a string of crashes their first day
i didn’t know that 😂
This article is a little light on thesis, but legit.
Personally, I’d like to tie a vision of autonomous vehicles to a broad rethinking of transit and public ownership. What if training data was shared, so instead of allowing Google to create another monopoly we deliberately cultivated a diverse market? What if we designed roads to accommodate autonomous van pools and also bikes and more light vehicles?
We can dream better than this.
autonomous van pools
We could even call them busses
Years ago, Microsoft was doing some R&D on autonomous vehicles in a mock city built for it. Instead of each vehicle doing all of the processing, the fake city was built with wireless markers to GIVE the car the information. Like instead of having to “see” a stop sign, the stop sign told cars it was there.
It would be complicated and expensive to implement on a mass scale but I thought it was a really cool idea.
That test sounds like a model trainroad but for billionaires.
Sure. But it’s not like the technology they developed is useless outside of an autonomous city, I’m sure they went into it knowing it would never be implemented for real.
Move fast, break laws, escape repercussions.
They moved on to calling it “disrupting the market”. I think the latest is “Revolutionize the way we do …”. Same thing really.
Yeah but they didn’t move fast. autonomous road vehicles have been in development by one company or another for what, twenty years at least? It’s only in the last couple of years that they’ve started hitting the road.
