GM Cruise raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from Softbank and Honda

Re:GM Cruise raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from Softbank... by ec109685 on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @09:57PM (#19855268)

Learning a problem is harder 3 years later isn’t unusual in software world. All the autonomous car companies said this is harder. Waymo has no driverless cars anywhere and there are quotes saying it would be ready.

Also, Elon always promised hardware upgrade if needed.

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Re:GM Cruise raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from Softbank... by BoorishBears on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @11:50PM (#19855725)

"Learning a problem is harder"

We're talking about the holy grail of AI in the automotive industry, not a SaaS side project.

This isn't assigning the Summer Vision Project in 1966.

Everyone knew that this was going to be a monumental problem, and the only person in the room who was claiming they already had all the tools to solve the problem (a problem that no one else is even willing to say they fully understood how to approach yet) is also the guy with a record for lying through his teeth so much there's a term for it.

I'm excited to see real attempts at FSD. Not from the company that gets most of it's hype from AP1, which used the same sensor suit GM was putting in cars years ago for off-label applications so they could go around waving "autopilot", which resulted in easily preventable deaths.

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