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Re:The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car In... by agumonkey on Monday October 31, 2016 @07:31PM (#12841929)
I liked Google's approach a lot. It seemed justly dimensioned, came out of Thrun DARPA success, had years and millions of miles of testing. What's not to love. Also G has the lever to accelerate and change tech if their old approach is obsolete.

Sad they went silent since a year or so.

I said it in other place, including HN, I don't consider Hotz an outsider, but mostly glorified hacker (his attitude with institutions and media don't help me clear this impression); and I don't think hacker mentality bodes well with this task.

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Re:The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car In... by sorenjan on Monday October 31, 2016 @10:00PM (#12842804)
Isn't Google's approach dependent on expensive LIDARs and high resolution 3D maps [0], or have they changed that? I don't see that kind of system scale well.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXylqtEQ0tk

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Re:The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car In... by agumonkey on Monday October 31, 2016 @10:05PM (#12842824)
I've read LIDAR cost was dropping fast, it was expensive at the time and as a short production item; nowadays it's even small.

About the 3D mapping you're probably right, I somehow expected it not to be a deep problem.

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Re:The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car In... by Pica_soO on Monday October 31, 2016 @09:40PM (#12842710)
Actually, that is a very humanistic point of view. There are third-world countrys where a margin of life-loss is considered "acceptable".

And sorry, but Teslas approach, seems to be a similar hacky "Wing-it with PR-Guns blazing".

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Re:The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car In... by agumonkey on Monday October 31, 2016 @10:04PM (#12842820)
About the first point, do countries where such acceptable risk still exist really need self driving vehicles that early ? Could be delayed a bit.

About the second point, see my above comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12841767

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