Google is investing billions in technologies that bring the future closer
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#2prototype for T-1000?
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#4It never ceases to amaze me how many people have bought into the idea that Google is going to bring self-driving cars to the world. The leading car companies have been working on it for decades. And in some cases e.g. Volvo in Sweden are testing it at a serious, real-world scale:
https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/videos/13...
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#5It never ceases to amaze me how many people have bought into the idea that Google is going to bring self-driving cars to the world. The leading car companies have been working on it for decades. And in some cases e.g. Volvo in Sweden are testing it at a serious, real-world scale: https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/videos/13...
Yeah it's like when people thought that PayPal guy could create an electric car.
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#6I would add Project Ara to this list. The technologies being developed to make the modular phone (eg network on a board with UniPro) has the potential to drastically change the way companies design and fab all sorts of electronic devices.
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#7It never ceases to amaze me how many people have bought into the idea that Google is going to bring self-driving cars to the world. The leading car companies have been working on it for decades. And in some cases e.g. Volvo in Sweden are testing it at a serious, real-world scale: https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/videos/13...
Self-driving is largely a big data problem, which Google is far better at than any car company. They also hired most of the big names from the DARPA Grand Challenge.
Google is focusing on a self driving car at NHTSA level 4 and plans to have such a vehicle available to the public between 2017-2020, while these other companies are focusing on level 3 and have no solid plans for level 4.
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#8It never ceases to amaze me how many people have bought into the idea that Google is going to bring self-driving cars to the world. The leading car companies have been working on it for decades. And in some cases e.g. Volvo in Sweden are testing it at a serious, real-world scale: https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/videos/13...
Yeah it's like when people thought that PayPal guy could create an electric car.
Yeah I mean the car companies have been working on electric cars for DECADES, how could HE beat them to it?
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#9It never ceases to amaze me how many people have bought into the idea that Google is going to bring self-driving cars to the world. The leading car companies have been working on it for decades. And in some cases e.g. Volvo in Sweden are testing it at a serious, real-world scale: https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/videos/13...
Just because they've been working on it for decades doesn't mean they're the one's best positioned to it. See electric cars/Tesla.
Re: Google is investing billions in technologies that bring the future closer
#10It never ceases to amaze me how many people have bought into the idea that Google is going to bring self-driving cars to the world. The leading car companies have been working on it for decades. And in some cases e.g. Volvo in Sweden are testing it at a serious, real-world scale: https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/videos/13...
Self-driving is largely a big data problem, which Google is far better at than any car company. They also hired most of the big names from the DARPA Grand Challenge. Google is focusing on a self driving car at NHTSA level 4 and plans to have such a vehicle available to the public between 2017-2020, while these other companies are focusing on level 3 and have no solid plans for level 4.
I thought it was about sensors and integration. Big-data? That would be open-loop driving (using GPS only to steer) which I desperately hope is NOT the approach they're taking.