Re:I have formally accepted the CEO job at Cruise once again
by ModernMech on Monday February 28, 2022 @04:48PM
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That's because Kyle competed with MIT in the DARPA Grand Challenge, which is where the architecture for the modern driverless car was battle tested. LIDAR was by far and away the enabling technology in those competitions. Every team that finished in the DUC had a Velodyne 64 LIDAR. They are that important.
For whatever reason, Tesla has decided to eschew this hard-earned wisdom, have treated their customers and the general public as an extension of their corporate research lab and their customers and others have paid the price for it with their lives.
During the DUC, contestants competed in an abandoned military base in the middle of the desert. In that environment, the vehicles were outfitted with all matter of flashing lights, emergency stop procedures, and all humans had to clear the area. That's what robot research was like in 2007. And our cars didn't have a verified track record of deaths!
Little did we know at the time, we could've just held the DARPA Urban challenge in the middle of downtown SF. Apparently we wouldn't even have needed to inform the unwitting public that an experiment involving a 2 ton machine that has killed people in the past was taking place in their midst.
For whatever reason, Tesla has decided to eschew this hard-earned wisdom, have treated their customers and the general public as an extension of their corporate research lab and their customers and others have paid the price for it with their lives.
During the DUC, contestants competed in an abandoned military base in the middle of the desert. In that environment, the vehicles were outfitted with all matter of flashing lights, emergency stop procedures, and all humans had to clear the area. That's what robot research was like in 2007. And our cars didn't have a verified track record of deaths!
Little did we know at the time, we could've just held the DARPA Urban challenge in the middle of downtown SF. Apparently we wouldn't even have needed to inform the unwitting public that an experiment involving a 2 ton machine that has killed people in the past was taking place in their midst.