The Google X moonshot factory is struggling to get products out the door

Post by ocdtrekkie » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 4:33 AM UTC

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It's not just going to be about straight miles driven, it's about the technology being focused on and what's possible with it. Both Tesla and comma.ai are focusing primarily on what the car can see and do with it's own sensors... Google's cars are only functional on roads excessively mapped far above the normal Google Maps level. Google's existing strategy for self-driving cars isn't practical at a national level bec…

> Google's cars are only functional on roads excessively mapped far above the normal Google Maps level. Since this is a core part of your argument, I'm gonna go ahead and [citation needed] I've not heard anything of the sort and I've seen Google's cars on all sorts of roads. Plenty of their talks have been about the cars detecting anomalous situations and reacting appropriately, as well.