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It seems like the real news is Jeff and Sanjay are leaving Google, and Demis is effectively replacing Jeff as Chief Scientist for all of Alphabet. The bigger deal is the departure …

> and thus not useful Again, I’m not suggesting this. Bottleneck has a specific meaning. It means Waymo is limited by not having the ability to collect data. Well, clearly that’s n…

“Real world data is not the bottleneck” != “Real world data is not useful” No one is suggesting the latter.

Mapping and simulation have very different purposes. Doesn’t look like you’re familiar with the basics of AV technology. Explains a lot why you’re confused about how real world and…

That’s literally how it works right now, so yeah.

Most AVs, definitely Waymo vehicles, are self mapping. They can detect environment changes and relay it to the entire fleet. That's because they map using the same vehicles as the …

> Waymo might very well be missing specific kinds of data (e.g more incidents/accidents, near-collisions etc) Accidents and near-collisions are exactly the kind of scenarios perfec…

IIRC, they had clocked 20 million real world miles before starting to scale their deployment. But they were also driving 20 million miles in the simulator every day : https://waymo…

I agree real world data is important for Waymo. I didn't mean to say it wasn't, so I've edited my comment to reflect that. It's just that data is not some magic bullet to achieve s…

> The insight driving the program, Naga said, is that the limiting factor for AV development is no longer the underlying technology. “The bottleneck is data,” he said. “[Companies …

This is fascinating. I feel like this is converging into the concept of a traditional "IDE". So much of your setup reminds me of IDEs indexing, doing static analysis, building ASTs…

> Before Waymo deploys in a new city, it deploys a huge fleet of cars that spend months of driving completely supervised, presumably to construct a detailed LIDAR map of the city. …

We all know Tesla likes to play smoke and mirrors game with vehicle numbers — they have 300+ "robotaxis" but only 7 of them are unsupervised [1], and they shut down when it rains […

Nothing says confidence like a prediction with an unspecified timeline.

Waymo drives 4 million miles every week (500k+ miles each day). Vast majority of those collisions are when Waymos were stationary (they don’t redact narrative in crash reports like…

> Tesla beating Waymo Heard this for a decade now, but I’m sure this year will be different!

There’s also one where Tesla hit a parked truck: “13781-13644 Street, Heavy truck, No injuries, Proceeding Straight (Heavy truck: parked), 4mph, contact area: left”

They don’t have remote drivers. Your own link says that. > The Waymo Driver does not rely solely on the inputs it receives from the fleet response agent and it is in control of the…

These videos from Waymo shows what kind of guidance they provide: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T0WtBFEfAyo https://youtube.com/watch?v=elpQPbJXpfY Notice how the system itself reaso…

> Tesla is executing the strategy that most quickly scales to 100% of the population. So, uh… where is this “scale” then? This “strategy” has been bandied about for better part of …

This is 3D LiDAR output (multimodal) from 2D images.