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Re:New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making s... by onlyrealcuzzo on Thursday May 01, 2025 @06:12PM (#43863963)
> Funnily enough that's exactly why I don't like them. Every time one rolls by me I know that tens of photos of me and even my 3D LIDAR scan get piled in to some fucking Google dataset where it will live forever :/

It's not going to be stored forever.

That would be incredibly expensive.

Those cars are taking in TB of information each daily. Scale that to 10s of millions of cars.

It's just not going to happen.

Maybe an ultra compressed representation of you that shares maybe 1 bit in 1 weight somewhere in a NN will live forever.

Maybe.

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Re:New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making s... by Lammy on Thursday May 01, 2025 @06:24PM (#43864047)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43863276
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Re:New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making s... by echoangle on Friday May 02, 2025 @07:51AM (#43868532)
> Scale that to 10s of millions of cars.

Don’t they currently have less than 1000 cars? I don’t think they will keep every recording forever but technically, they still could at the current scale.

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Re:New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making s... by onlyrealcuzzo on Friday May 02, 2025 @09:57AM (#43869854)
That's still close to an Exabyte of data per year...

They have plans to grow 1000s of times this size.

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