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Re:Volvo is reportedly scaling back its self-driving car exp... by jamesblonde on Sunday December 17, 2017 @03:49PM (#15947573)
I think you are on the right track here. I know some of the people hired by Volvo cars to work on this, and I am not aware of them recruiting top ML researchers to work on this and I suspect they are just not good enough people there. Waymo, on the other hand, will probably get it done, and done really well.
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Re:Volvo is reportedly scaling back its self-driving car exp... by im_down_w_otp on Sunday December 17, 2017 @04:34PM (#15947801)
That's because Volvo's AV software position is a joint venture w/ Autoliv called Zenuity. https://www.zenuity.com

So if you're looking for CV/ML people working on the perception part of the stack, look there.

FWIW, I work in this field now and I have fairly low confidence in the non-ML parts of the software stack across the industry. There's a lot more to this problem than well manicured computer-vision demos, and Volvo is a lot less cavalier about loss of human life than almost anyone else, so it's fairly heartening to see them realign around realistic expectations.

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