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Yandex’s on-demand taxi service debuts its self-driving car project

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Post by cr0sh »

djsumdog wrote: post #5
old-gregg wrote: post #3

Does anyone else think the steering wheel movements are unrealistically aggressive? The car is barely turning, yet the wheel is doing 60+ degree turns. Has it been calibrated to be this way, or Prius steering ratio is that relaxed?

Yea that did seem weird. Also as far as collision avoidance, shouldn't the car come to a complete stop if a van pulls out in front of it instead of just trying to move around it? What would happen if the van kept going? I hope this is an early prototype.

Remember, this is Russia we're talking about - or haven't you watched any of those dashcam videos? If it drove what we in the West think of as "normal", it would probably cause more accidents, not less.

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Re: Yandex’s on-demand taxi service debuts its self-driving car project

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Post by dmix »

getsiu wrote: post #40
ex3ndr wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the Yandex developers are not that good or not loyal to a company. This classes in universities is a scam: instead of teaching people of real world things, they teach how to work with yandex tech stack. Yandex lost almost all good developers and it is continue even further. Companies rent offices near yandex and find yandex developers in the restaurants around this buildings and convince them to leave. This i…

As a former employee of Yandex I totally disagree with what you said about 'not that good' developers and their loyalty. It seems to me that the most common reason for leaving the company is immigration, which has nothing to do with Yandex itself. All my ex colleagues who left Yandex work abroad at Google, Facebook, MS and etc. Also I've seen many very good developers who cared a lot about their products. So my impre…

The OP doesn't seem to work there and seems like an outsider who thinks he knows how to run a company better than the people on the inside. This obviously misses a lot of moving parts and internal incentives (which yes may ultimately created a bad product). But I'd personally rather hear the experiences of people directly involved with the company.

I don't see anything wrong with training people on their tech stack either. That's not a scam, that's a highly valuable skillset if it gets you a job and experience. You can always learn other languages on your own, which is 10x easier after you know one.

Re: Yandex’s on-demand taxi service debuts its self-driving car project

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Post by Animats »

ansgri wrote: post #45
Animats wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We had a $5000 Novatel GPS. It didn't have INS integration, and required a subscription to a sat-based correction service. For the 2004 Grand Challenge, CMU had a unit which required 4U of rack space and air conditioning. There's been progress.

Of course there's been progress, or we wouldn't be able to even start working on this project with such limited resources as we have now — that's like $5000 for total hardware (still 4u rack though, +INS, +cameras, no corrected GPS), the main problem being the inability to buy something like tBOX [0] with a more powerful CPU. Though we are counting on both our system getting optimized and industrial PCs catching up i…

You need more money than $5K to work in this space.

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Post by addmeaning »

n0mad-1 wrote: post #34
ex3ndr wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the Yandex developers are not that good or not loyal to a company. This classes in universities is a scam: instead of teaching people of real world things, they teach how to work with yandex tech stack. Yandex lost almost all good developers and it is continue even further. Companies rent offices near yandex and find yandex developers in the restaurants around this buildings and convince them to leave. This i…

> This classes in universities is a scam: instead of teaching people of real world things, they teach how to work with yandex tech stack. Is that true? The sample curriculum [0] doesn't seem to support that. [0] https://yandexdataschool.com/edu-process/program/data-analys...

Machine learning lectures with Konstantin Vorontsov are one of the most brilliant course I ever seen. Konstantin is super smart, every topic explained in in-depth and with proper mathematical background. Video lectures of Yandex Data School - real thing, world class CS theory

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Post by ansgri »

Animats wrote: post #53
ansgri wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course there's been progress, or we wouldn't be able to even start working on this project with such limited resources as we have now — that's like $5000 for total hardware (still 4u rack though, +INS, +cameras, no corrected GPS), the main problem being the inability to buy something like tBOX [0] with a more powerful CPU. Though we are counting on both our system getting optimized and industrial PCs catching up i…

You need more money than $5K to work in this space.

Well, I'm talking only about additional hardware cost per car. To work in this space you primarily need a partner from auto industry, and that partner may be interested in automated driving only if the additional hardware cost is minimal.
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