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I believe Waymo’s strategy has always been to shoot for level 5 autonomous driving and not bother with the others. Tesla not following that strategy has proven them correct. You either have a system that is safe, reliable, and fully autonomous, or you’ve got nothing. Not that Waymo has a system at this point that can work under all conditions, but their approach is definitely superior to Tesla’s if nothing else.

And a orange safer than a knive.

They're mobile spyware belonging to an alphabet agency.

But they didnt move fast at all. I saw people driving Waymo'a for years before I saw the first automated one hit the streets. They took their damn time which I am sure was expensive and worth it.

LIDAR, baby!

Safer than ChatGPT you say? Wow....

That isn't a high bar.

This article is a little light on thesis, but legit.

Personally, I'd like to tie a vision of autonomous vehicles to a broad rethinking of transit and public ownership. What if training data was shared, so instead of allowing Google to create another monopoly we deliberately cultivated a diverse market? What if we designed roads to accommodate autonomous van pools and also bikes and more light vehicles?

We can dream better than this.

Move fast, break laws, escape repercussions.

That probably is not so comforting when one of them is in control of half a ton of metal, plastic and glass in public.