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Self-Driving Car Startup Voyage Brings on Ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber Exec as CTO

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Re: Self-Driving Car Startup Voyage Brings on Ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber Exec as CTO

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Ping me when you're ready to start a job search in the space :) oliver@voyage.auto

Where is your engineering team located? I have a friend who might be interested.

We are based in Palo Alto, CA. We are also open to remote work for the right person! Please refer to oliver@voyage.auto.

Re: Self-Driving Car Startup Voyage Brings on Ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber Exec as CTO

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Not necessarily a bad thing, but it seems that guy is always looking for his next job. Good luck keeping him on board for any significant amount of time. Although maybe he already ran out of self-driving-vehicle startups to work at.

Seems to me people that have a job title where the first letter begins with "C" and rhymes with "Reef" are given a much wider berth when it comes to the types of thing that would get the average worker thoroughly passed over in job screenings.

They have already been selected specifically. This is different from the average worker who came out of a stack of resumes that needed to be whittled down fast.

Re: Self-Driving Car Startup Voyage Brings on Ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber Exec as CTO

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Oliver, since the Udacity days I was really looking forward to a player in the field that was serious about open source and open data.

For all the gripes I have with Comma AI, they have been the only ones consistently sharing progress with the public.

For people in medium income countries like myself avoiding a monopoly from Google is very important for the next 10-20 years.

Does Voyage plan to share some of it’s progress with the community on a liberal license?

Re: Self-Driving Car Startup Voyage Brings on Ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber Exec as CTO

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I was just thinking this, but it seems his departure from Cruise coincided with the GM acquisition, and the transition to Uber from Otto probably happened because Uber acquired Otto. The primary job changes then are from Tesla to Otto and now from Uber to Voyage.

Why didn't he stay on at GM if he was good/critical? Do not acquiring companies want to keep at the good people, not let them all leave immediately after acquisition?

They kill people with failed ignition switch, tried to cover up, lobby EPA to eliminate fuel economy standards, get a huge bailout from tax payers because insiders stole all the money.

I won't want to work for such a company either.

Re: Self-Driving Car Startup Voyage Brings on Ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber Exec as CTO

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I was just thinking this, but it seems his departure from Cruise coincided with the GM acquisition, and the transition to Uber from Otto probably happened because Uber acquired Otto. The primary job changes then are from Tesla to Otto and now from Uber to Voyage.

Why didn't he stay on at GM if he was good/critical? Do not acquiring companies want to keep at the good people, not let them all leave immediately after acquisition?

You are assuming it was by choice (and that the dates on his LinkedIn profile are accurate). I cannot say anything more concrete.

Re: Self-Driving Car Startup Voyage Brings on Ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber Exec as CTO

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Hello everyone! @olivercameron, CEO of Voyage here. Drew is currently busy at our Testing Grounds shipping a new release, but if there's any Voyage or self-driving car related questions I can answer, I'd love to hear em'! My previous life was at Udacity, where I spent 4 years working on their self-driving car and machine learning curriculum. I learned a ton from working with Sebastian Thrun and the rest of the Udacit…

How do you see the market for self-driving cars? How far is Waymo ahead of the competition? Who are the top competitors? How do you see your own position as a smaller startup?

Re: Self-Driving Car Startup Voyage Brings on Ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber Exec as CTO

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Hello everyone! @olivercameron, CEO of Voyage here. Drew is currently busy at our Testing Grounds shipping a new release, but if there's any Voyage or self-driving car related questions I can answer, I'd love to hear em'! My previous life was at Udacity, where I spent 4 years working on their self-driving car and machine learning curriculum. I learned a ton from working with Sebastian Thrun and the rest of the Udacit…

Hi Oliver

It seems like the best self-driving systems are currently struggling with what seem to be fairly fundamental deficiencies (cant react to stationary objects on highways, dont react well to children and cyclists)

Is this a valid observation? What do you see as the biggest limitations in the current generation of self-driving technology?

Re: Self-Driving Car Startup Voyage Brings on Ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber Exec as CTO

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Hi Oliver, you probably have huge amounts of raw data and annotated datasets to train your algorithms. 2 questions:

1) How do you decide what you annotate and what not?

2) How do you manage your datasets infrastructure-wise (where and how is the data hosted, what software do you use to access and filter it, ...)

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