No hype, Just works: How Comma reached 100M miles in autonomous driving
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 18 September 2024
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Todays show:
Comma’s Harald Schäfer joins Jason to discuss the future of autonomous driving, Comma’s open-source approach (7:24), how camera-based systems stack up against lidar (20:52), self-driving technology developments globally (32:55), and more!
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(0:00) Comma’s Harald Schäfer joins Jason
(2:02) Comma's approach to self-driving technology
(4:06) Cost, installation, and car manufacturers' reactions to Comma
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(7:24) Open source and different approaches in autonomous driving
(13:08) Comparing Waymo, Tesla FSD, and comma AI's strategies
(20:52) Lidar vs. camera-based systems in autonomy and the advantages of camera-based systems over human drivers
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(24:56) Autonomous vehicle rollout timeline and predictions
(27:33) Open source projects and major car manufacturers' adoption
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(32:55) Self-driving technology developments in China
(34:25) Tesla's anticipated announcements and AI integration in robotics
(39:48) Accessing and contributing to open-source self-driving projects
(41:01) Data sharing and transparency in autonomous driving
(43:14) Global adoption and demographics of self-driving technology
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| 0:00.0 | I'm very excited about robotics, but I think we should be realistic. |
| 0:03.7 | The big reason a lot of people went to self-driving 10 years ago, including me, |
| 0:07.8 | is because it seemed like a great applied robotics problem that was easy. |
| 0:11.7 | You have two-dimensional actuators, you have simple rules of the |
| 0:14.5 | road. As far as robotics goes, that's relatively easy. And then what happened is all |
| 0:19.3 | these companies were optimistic and ended up not reaching their goals. |
| 0:23.0 | And now all of a sudden everyone's switching to humanoid robotics, |
| 0:25.3 | which from the beginning, we always thought was harder. |
| 0:28.1 | So I think it's just another hype wave. |
| 0:30.1 | I don't think there's going to be humanoid robots in your house |
| 0:32.4 | and we should be somewhat cautious about everything that's just a demo and is not shipping. |
| 0:37.0 | This weekend startups is brought to you by dot-tech domains. Don't miss our Jam with JCal contest. To apply and get more details go to |
| 0:46.3 | Jam with JCal dot tech brought to you by dot tech domains. |
| 0:50.7 | Vanta. Compliance and security shouldn't be a deal breaker for startups to win new business. |
| 0:56.0 | Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a sock to report fast. |
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| 1:20.8 | All right everybody welcome back to the program very excited today to talk about |
| 1:26.4 | self-driving cars and autonomy feels to me like the autonomy end game is upon us. We're seeing it in Vtles, vertical takeoff and landing companies, |
| 1:38.6 | we're seeing it with Waymo, Tesla, and today's Gas comma AI's CTO Harold Schaefer welcome to the program Harold how |
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