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Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self-driving car

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Re: Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self-driving car

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So Google's ad revenue business subsidized the education of thousands of people who took their newly acquired knowledge of autonomous vehicles to the big car companies. Aside from the Ad business Google is more like Stanford than any actual business.

The people who left from Google's self-driving car division walked in the door as the world's leading experts on the subject. I'm not sure you can say that they learned everything from Google.

Consider it funding general research then. Same result.

Re: Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self-driving car

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We must let go delusional thinking that with current AI we can safely throw autonomous car in a dense urban area. Given the capability which Tesla currently demonstrates, it seems extreme to call the idea of full autonomy with current AI technologies delusional. With their current progress, full autonomy in production seems reasonable within a few years. https://vimeo.com/192179727

I only see some nice data-visualizations added in post-production and spice-up with a feelgood song after a successful ride. As for capability and reasonable aspect, I will be much more interested in reading post-mortem reports of the fatal crash under a truck by road safety organizations when (and if) they come out...

And as it turned out Uber AI now cross red light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CdJ4oae8f4

Distinguishing verifiable facts from marketing is actually important...

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