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Re: Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car

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You created your account 19hrs ago....sketchy.

Yes, I am commenting anonymously. It's necessary. Cruise Automation can produce a good demo. Shortcuts have been taken to produce good-looking results. Don't be deceived. No car running the current software (or any software derived from it) will ever operate reliably. Posted below, you will find a deleted comment from one of my fellow Cruise employees. That comment is accurate in its characterization of both Kyle and…

What's the end game for Cruise then?

How much of the GM options have vested for the founders?

Re: Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car

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Yes, I am commenting anonymously. It's necessary. Cruise Automation can produce a good demo. Shortcuts have been taken to produce good-looking results. Don't be deceived. No car running the current software (or any software derived from it) will ever operate reliably. Posted below, you will find a deleted comment from one of my fellow Cruise employees. That comment is accurate in its characterization of both Kyle and…

What's the end game for Cruise then? How much of the GM options have vested for the founders?

Both questions: I don't know.

But as an individual: I'm vesting while I work to satisfy the conditions for a GM payout.

Re: Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car

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> they'll have cars driving around empty. > It's a prediction, I can't provide a source for events that haven't occurred. Using the words "they will" makes it sound like an assertion. How are you so confident about "events that haven't occurred" will indeed occur? You listed out reports and demos, none of which necessarily suggest that "Late this year or 2018 they'll have cars driving around empty"? Do you have addit…

If I tell you the sun is going to rise tomorrow morning, I don't actually know it's going to do that until it does. That's kind of the thing about future events, it should go without saying. Nothing you've written is a counter argument. You just used way more words than you need to to say 'I don't believe you'. Yay. My points are that GM is doing well, and that they are scaling up their operation to a degree that wou…

> The counterpoints are that 'this smells like PR bullshit', and that Kyle Vogt is an asshole

I literally said none of that...

Re: Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car

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What's the end game for Cruise then? How much of the GM options have vested for the founders?

Both questions: I don't know. But as an individual: I'm vesting while I work to satisfy the conditions for a GM payout.

Aren't you afraid of the black hole on your resume?

Re: Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car

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Both questions: I don't know. But as an individual: I'm vesting while I work to satisfy the conditions for a GM payout.

Aren't you afraid of the black hole on your resume?

No, look at the PR!

Re: Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car

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hmm I thought the bottleneck would be on the software side? I saw at least 2 lidars (possibly 3) on the car in the article. Of course we don't know if that's sufficient for L4, L5 but other companies are running with only 1 lidar.

People can get by with zero LIDARs. There's no reason why autonomous cars couldn't. The real problems are elsewhere (emergency vehicles, ambiguous situations, construction, …). We'll need operators on standby for a looong time still. Good luck driving in areas without decent fast cell networking.

People's optical system has much wider ranges in many parameters than photo/video camera matrices.
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