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Deleted member 25
Why do you still need to have a wheel on a level 4 ? When are you expecting to take over ?
Waymo (Google's Self Driving Car Company)
Cashmere
RPM Ruler
Because no one (currently) manufactures cars without steering wheels.
klier
Premium
This is a serious contradiction, lol
CrunchSlaughtered
RPM Ruler
A little more than 20 years ago, at the dawn of my driving career, I was more a crash test dummy than a driver. For 5 years I destructed completely 7 cars and thanks to the self learning I have managed to reduce the frequency of the accidents drastically. I feel myself almost like an AI. I hope it is going to learn(or to calm dawn) faster.
klier
Premium
Don’t worry, it will, and then some..
Cashmere
RPM Ruler
Having crashed my drone into trees on multiple occasions this is game changing tech and its a great example of how LIDAR and ultra sonic sensors are NOT needed for full autonomy. I was not expecting to see this kind of tech before 2020. Insane to see this on a consumer drone in 2018. The magic is all in the software (Neural Nets being able to identify their surroundings). Confident we'll see self driving cars before the end of this year.
Cashmere
RPM Ruler
"Self driving cars are stlll 10-15 years away" 
2016: Waymo orders 100 vehicles
2017: Waymo orders 500 vehicles
2018 Q1: Waymo orders 2,000 vehicles
2018 Q2: Waymo orders 62,000 vehicles
Waymo’s fleet of self-driving minivans is about to get 100 times bigger
Google spinoff orders 62,000 Chrysler Pacifica minivans
Link: Waymo’s fleet of self-driving minivans is about to get 100 times bigger
2016: Waymo orders 100 vehicles
2017: Waymo orders 500 vehicles
2018 Q1: Waymo orders 2,000 vehicles
2018 Q2: Waymo orders 62,000 vehicles
Waymo’s fleet of self-driving minivans is about to get 100 times bigger
Google spinoff orders 62,000 Chrysler Pacifica minivans
Link: Waymo’s fleet of self-driving minivans is about to get 100 times bigger
tristatez28lt1
Tire Trailblazer
Undoubtedly the leader in autonomous driving.
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Deleted member 25
Impressive.
Sunny
Premium
Really? And I thought it was Eni
Meanwhile, here are some dumb asses wasting $2+ billion on AD - SoftBank to Invest $2.25B Into Cruise, GM's Self-Driving Car Unit. Only if they had consulted expert chonaka, he would have told him there is no market for AD and saved them $2b.
Centurion
Apex Apex Predator
That's a mega order. This underscores what I mentioned in another related thread, tech giants can dominate AD without manufacturing cars. All they have to do is to develop industry leading tech and before you know it, tech manufacturers will offer to pay for the license or beg for the said company to exclusively use their cars.
Congratulations to Chrysler for selling more minivans.
Congratulations to Chrysler for selling more minivans.
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Deleted member 25
Do they build themselves the AD hardware ?
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Deleted member 25
Lol after all that money spent on courts.
tristatez28lt1
Tire Trailblazer
Damn, nice catch and thinking!! I think you’re spot on!! That would be genius and I could imagine Google doing that. What exactly would they gain though?
Centurion
Apex Apex Predator
If you want to teach a toddler the difference what a man and woman is, you just need to point out several examples of a man and woman, and the toddler will figure out the differences themselves e.g Men tend to be taller, have deeper voices, rarely wear pink, don't wear skirts, have short hair. A toddler will eventually get it right but the more examples you give them, the greater chance that they will make the right guess in real life. With autonomous driving the tolerance for errors will be 0.00001% so the more training data gathered, the better.
This is the beauty of machine learning. You feed it examples and it learns to classify or predict behaviour by itself. 10 or so years ago AI was less sophisticated and required continuous programming to improve accuracy.
Machine learning is already used by Google images to show you the right result. When browsing my smartphone photo can search for ice cream or a specific car model and Google Photos will return the correct images eventhough there is no meta data or contextual information. The image recognition is very impressive and is being re-purposed for autonomous driving.
Worth mentioning is that deep learning is very cutting edge. In the past you could use AI for an algorithm that can beat human at chess, but that's all the algorithm could do. If you wanted an algorithm for a different purpose you had start from scratch. With deep learning an algorithm can be taught or self-taught to do several things: e.g image recognition AI could become a cab driver, tour guide, stunt driver, traffic officer, racing driver, crime scene detective etc.
