Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars and lane dividers

Re:Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars a... by Filligree on Sunday June 10, 2018 @09:33AM (#17278031)

Waymo seems to be doing just fine on their own. I'm not sure they feel they need any partnership.

They just ordered some 30,000-ish cars, so it would seem they're entering the mass-production phase.

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Re:Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars a... by plankers on Sunday June 10, 2018 @10:48AM (#17278352)

There's active disdain (or at least snide jokes) among the senior Waymo engineers for the approach to autonomous driving taken by Tesla. I can't see a partnership in the cards, probably ever.

Source: used to work there

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Re:Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars a... by louprado on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:28PM (#17278825)

How would the engineers at Waymo know Tesla's trade-secret approach beyond the physical hardware ? Tesla is the only major player in the race to autonomous cars that has no patent. Waymo has 145.[1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/a-tesla-self-driving-blind-s...

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Re:Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars a... by grogenaut on Sunday June 10, 2018 @01:23PM (#17279077)

I'm betting a bunch of them own Tesla's (status symbols). You can tell a lot about a system just by using it and testing it.

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Re:Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars a... by plankers on Monday June 11, 2018 @10:26PM (#17290253)

Some of them used to work at Tesla. They also take issue with the use of lossy sonar and the failure to incorporate lidar.

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Re:Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars a... by Filligree on Monday June 11, 2018 @12:10AM (#17281696)

I can understand why there might be.

Source: Watched a presentation on the computational aspects recently.

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