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But Google has Waymo. Either way, Apple will be far behind.
Yeah, but I don't think Google was planning on being an auto manufacturer. Isn't Google's plan to partner with existing manufacturers?
Was Apple really trying to build a self-driving electric car from scratch with just a 2,000 person team?
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Embarrassingly, I was eves dropping on a (loud) woman in a coffee shop who worked on the Apple Car project. She did SLAM work. I was evesdropping because that was a core part of my thesis and I was curious. She told her dining partner she was moved to the Vision Pro team to build the inside-out tracking. Research for the sake of research sometimes pays off. Who knows if this product will recoup the billions spent on…
I am incredibly jealous of you guys living in a place where you just bump into random people at coffeeshops that happen to work on incredibly interesting things. The density of talent must be amazing.
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Embarrassingly, I was eves dropping on a (loud) woman in a coffee shop who worked on the Apple Car project. She did SLAM work. I was evesdropping because that was a core part of my thesis and I was curious. She told her dining partner she was moved to the Vision Pro team to build the inside-out tracking. Research for the sake of research sometimes pays off. Who knows if this product will recoup the billions spent on…
There was a recent YC podcast about Vision Pro where SLAM and the overlap with autonomous vehicles was explained.
This is a smart move. Apple seems so far behind in generative AI it's making Google look innovative.
Apple's advantage is always been superior hardware and processing. My guess is that they try to do some on device LLM. It's currently possible to run Mistral 7B on your phone (MLCChat app), which is quite decent for a small model but is pretty terrible compared to the largest / best models.
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>>for example, when you press the brakes there isn't and hasn't been for a long time a direct connection to the physical brakes I'm sorry but you're getting it completely wrong. Brake by wire isn't legal anywhere in any market of the world and consequently there are zero cars implemented this way - every car currently on sale everywhere has to have a physical connection between the brake pedal and the actual brakes.…
Lexus has a backup mechanical link it engages when a fault is detected. The Tesla Cybertruck is the first vehicle on the road with no such backup. They rely on redundancy of motors, power, and compute instead
https://youtu.be/agMrewRJTow?si=DrjfGsrKp5_ZazB-
There isn't a mechanical connection of any kind - the car just relies on triple(!) Backup for every component, including three fully independent power sources.
"I drive an Apple" sounds so odd.
Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm character drives one. He was ahead of his time.