The Road to Autonomous Vehicles: Are We There Yet?

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Self-driving cars have been on the horizon for quite some time… But they might actually be here. We got to ride around in one all over San Francisco with Waymo’s Chief Product Officer. We discussed so much, including the five levels of autonomy, the infamous LIDAR vs video debate, regulation, UX, and the role of AI in fine-tuning these models. But most importantly, if autonomy is here… now what?!

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0:00.0	We are in San Francisco.
0:02.8	We're not taking you to some, you know, little test facility in a desert to show you that
0:08.1	discount.
0:09.1	We are on the road.
0:10.1	We are in the most vibrant cities on the planet. That's where we are in the journey.
0:15.0	We're fully autonomous where we need to be.
0:17.0	Self-driving is here.
0:19.0	I think if I was a human driving there, like, I don't know what would have happened?
0:22.0	You were asking
0:23.2	it doesn't get boring for you after working I love your excitement and we are not the
0:28.3	only ones who have noticed that kid just noticing that we don't have a driver. Look at that!
0:33.0	I love seeing so many people when they look inside.
0:35.0	Look at this, it's like, what's going on there?
0:37.0	Today I got to ride fully autonomously
0:40.0	with Weymos Chief Product Officer, Saswat Hanigrahi, who's actually been on this journey since 2016.
0:47.0	We discuss so much, including the five levels of autonomy.
0:52.0	Fully autonomous, as you can see, nobody in the front seat,
0:55.0	no expectation of a human to take over.
0:57.0	The infamous LIDAR versus video debate.
1:00.0	Saying you love LIDAR's and hate cameras, or vice versa, is saying you love LIDARS and hate cameras or vice versa is saying you love one wavelength
1:06.1	versus the other wavelength, right? It's not a fundamental thing.
1:09.3	Regulation, user experience, the role of AI in all this, but especially the question, if autonomy is truly here.
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