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Thanks for the recommendation, ordered. Hartley is very valuable to know how we got to where we are, from hand tuned features and RANSAC to more modern full photometric optimizatio…

In Robotics / Computer Vision: - Thrun et. al, Probabilistic Robotics - Multiple View Geometry, Hartley / Zisserman - An Invitation to 3D Vision, Ma - Pattern Recognition and Machi…

This is a complex question. As you pointed out, having a high fidelity map helps to identify the part of the environment that change, creating 'deltas'. Another reason is that auto…

Somewhat different to the suggestions so far, but Thrun et. al's 'Probabilistic Robotics' is a very good applied probability text, with a focus on physical systems. Plenty of worke…

OP here. It's tongue-in cheek, in the same way that Mike Judge's "Silicon Valley" is tongue-in-cheek. Please don't hurt me.

Have you ever worked for any of Musk's companies?

There have been many posts recently on the topic of the best resources for helping children / non-technical significant others to learn programming. I'd like to better understand t…

These are all questions to be addressed, along with 'how many of those miles should we upgrade', 'what will we get out of it', and 'how do we make a self-driving car'.

There are many many startups working on some fraction of the autonomy stack (e.g. Aurora) or the entire vertical (e.g. Zoox). I call out several specific ones in my comment if you …

I work in autonomous vehicle R&D, and if we had an environment filled with reliable sensors it would considerably simplify our problem. There is no such thing as a _complete, detai…

Without revealing too much, German automakers have expertise primarily in logistics, with some expertise in automotive design. There is a vast pyramid of Tier-1 and Tier-2 supplier…

Not sure why you're getting downvoted, this is a legitimate take. My thinking is this is two-pronged. It won't make sense to make the infrastructure investment until there are suff…

Similar background and profession - putting aside whether an individual would ever want to own one, general purpose passenger autonomy won't happen for probably another decade. Lim…

Does anyone know how much a Model S powertrain costs at salvage? I'm wondering about the total cost (less labor) of this mod.

We are at the peak of the autonomous driving hype cycle, and the trough of disillusionment is going to wipe out a few players, and see the massive consolidation of others. These st…

One interesting thing about the 'zero' approach is that it learns through self-play. So you can use a database to bootstrap the learning, but in principle you'd only need the game …

Title is dangerously misleading.

Learn to code. This will get you started on an MVP, and also looks good on an application.

Almost everything you interact with was designed and built by people like you. Understanding why those things work the way they do, and are made the way they are, is powerful. You …

~10 years experience in software development, everything from huge government telecoms projects to my own startup. I now work in robotics/computer vision research. Here's my advice…