Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars

Re:Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars by ghaff on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:28PM (#24623287)

Everyone has made disappointingly little progress on full self-driving in the sense of driving little Johnny from the house to soccer practice by himself.

There are possibly opportunities on freeways but anyone who expects to be able to get robo-Ubers door-to-door for decades is likely to be disappointed.

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Re:Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars by KKKKkkkk1 on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:21PM (#24623606)

> Everyone has made disappointingly little progress on full self-driving in the sense of driving little Johnny from the house to soccer practice by himself.

Here's a video of Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov claiming that he's perfectly comfortable putting his children in a Waymo car without a driver: https://youtu.be/fZHDvKw0QTA?t=952. Whether he's bluffing or not, we don't know.

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Re:Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars by ghaff on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @08:27AM (#24626858)

It will possibly be safe enough under some well-tested limited circumstances/locations. I'm skeptical that translates into something made generally available.

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Re:Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars by smachiz on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:55PM (#24623450)

lol.

You're VASTLY underestimating how much progress is being made by companies that aren't Uber.

3-10 years is a more realistic timetable than decades.

"People overestimate what they can accomplish in one year, and underestimate what they can accomplish in 10".

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Re:Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars by treeman79 on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:05PM (#24623514)

20 dollars it’s more than 20 years.

After all, writing an AI is just a summer project for couple of interns.

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Re:Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars by smachiz on Monday September 28, 2020 @11:31PM (#24623944)

$100k on the under.

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