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Re:Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars by foobiekr on Thursday April 11, 2019 @12:04PM (#19636016)
1. VC prefer technical risk to market risk. Industrial is riskier.

2. The hype around ML has turned it into magic, so why not “disrupt” a huge market?

Imho a lot of this is the direct result of the deep learning hype cycle.

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Re:Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars by Loughla on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:20PM (#19636885)
>Imho a lot of this is the direct result of the deep learning hype cycle.

I'm right there with you. The first round was just 'web connected'. Uber - we're going to do taxis, but with the internet. For example.

Now we've moved to stage 2 - machine learning. Auto-Uber - we're going to do taxis, and uber, but with machines!

It makes for nice headlines.

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Re:Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars by rjplatte on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:46PM (#19638422)
I can't wait for blockchain ride-sharing.

Never mind https://www.iride.io/

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