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Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

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Re: Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

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What is the general view on Zoox's progress relative to other non-waymo playes. Such as Argo, Aurora and Cruise. There is the widely reported disengagement per mile, but most robotics people know it is just smoke and mirrors meant to make the regulators go away (disclosure, studied/researched robotics in grad school).

Re: Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

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What is the general view on Zoox's progress relative to other non-waymo playes. Such as Argo, Aurora and Cruise. There is the widely reported disengagement per mile, but most robotics people know it is just smoke and mirrors meant to make the regulators go away (disclosure, studied/researched robotics in grad school).

The general consensus among my AV friends (who work at a bunch of different companies) is that their AV driving stack is really good, but obviously not perfect.

I have no idea about their business model and how COVID affects that, though.

Re: Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

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What is the general view on Zoox's progress relative to other non-waymo playes. Such as Argo, Aurora and Cruise. There is the widely reported disengagement per mile, but most robotics people know it is just smoke and mirrors meant to make the regulators go away (disclosure, studied/researched robotics in grad school).

The general consensus among my AV friends (who work at a bunch of different companies) is that their AV driving stack is really good, but obviously not perfect. I have no idea about their business model and how COVID affects that, though.

Relative to competitors Zoox's automous OS is doing quite well and doesn't get enough respect. Relative to the objective everybody is fucked.

Re: Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The general consensus among my AV friends (who work at a bunch of different companies) is that their AV driving stack is really good, but obviously not perfect. I have no idea about their business model and how COVID affects that, though.

Relative to competitors Zoox's automous OS is doing quite well and doesn't get enough respect. Relative to the objective everybody is fucked.

Could you provide more context on the first part.

Re: Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

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This demo is not informative as to the readiness for scalable L4 deployment, for which it would be necessary to focus on the breadth/accuracy of perception features under the hood of intent prediction and what happens at the tail end with arbitrary situations that occur in urban driving environments.

Re: Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

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Casually starting the turn and not yielding to pedestrians at 10:21. Companies actually put this kind of footage up without ever reviewing it?

I mean it's not 100% of the way there. Plus human drivers do that all the time and MUCH worse things. I'm talking from the point of view as a frequent Uber/Lyft passenger.
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