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Welcoming our first riders in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa(waymo.com)
4 points by ra7 15d ago|0 comments
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Waymo Sensor Fusion Processor at Hot Chips 2026(servethehome.com)
3 points by ra7 21d ago|0 comments
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A look under our trunk: what's in our compute(waymo.com)
139 points by ra7 27d ago|110 comments
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by ra7 1mo ago
It seems like the real news is Jeff and Sanjay are leaving Google, and Demis is effectively replacing Jeff as Chief Scientist for all of Alphabet. The bigger deal is the departure of Jeff and Sanjay, rather than Demis moving into a differen
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by ra7 5mo ago
> and thus not useful Again, I’m not suggesting this. Bottleneck has a specific meaning. It means Waymo is limited by not having the ability to collect data. Well, clearly that’s not true because Waymo already has a reasonably scaled d
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by ra7 5mo ago
“Real world data is not the bottleneck” != “Real world data is not useful” No one is suggesting the latter.
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by ra7 5mo ago
Mapping and simulation have very different purposes. Doesn’t look like you’re familiar with the basics of AV technology. Explains a lot why you’re confused about how real world and simulated data is used.
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by ra7 5mo ago
That’s literally how it works right now, so yeah.
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by ra7 5mo ago
Most AVs, definitely Waymo vehicles, are self mapping. They can detect environment changes and relay it to the entire fleet. That's because they map using the same vehicles as the fleet.
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by ra7 5mo ago
> Waymo might very well be missing specific kinds of data (e.g more incidents/accidents, near-collisions etc) Accidents and near-collisions are exactly the kind of scenarios perfect for simulation. You don't test them out in
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by ra7 5mo ago
IIRC, they had clocked 20 million real world miles before starting to scale their deployment. But they were also driving 20 million miles in the simulator every day : https://waymo.com/blog/2020/04/off-road-b
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by ra7 5mo ago
I agree real world data is important for Waymo. I didn't mean to say it wasn't, so I've edited my comment to reflect that. It's just that data is not some magic bullet to achieve self driving like Tesla and others sugges
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by ra7 5mo ago
> The insight driving the program, Naga said, is that the limiting factor for AV development is no longer the underlying technology. “The bottleneck is data,” he said. “[Companies like Waymo] need to go around and collect the data, coll
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California Issues New Autonomous Vehicle Regulations(email.dmvonline.ca.gov)
3 points by ra7 5mo ago|0 comments
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by ra7 6mo ago
This is fascinating. I feel like this is converging into the concept of a traditional "IDE". So much of your setup reminds me of IDEs indexing, doing static analysis, building ASTs, etc. before a developer starts writing code.
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Ready to Ride: Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando(waymo.com)
7 points by ra7 7mo ago|0 comments
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by ra7 7mo ago
> Before Waymo deploys in a new city, it deploys a huge fleet of cars that spend months of driving completely supervised, presumably to construct a detailed LIDAR map of the city. Not entirely true. From their recent "road trips&q
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by ra7 7mo ago
We all know Tesla likes to play smoke and mirrors game with vehicle numbers — they have 300+ "robotaxis" but only 7 of them are unsupervised [1], and they shut down when it rains [2]. So let's use a metric that unequivocally
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by ra7 7mo ago
Nothing says confidence like a prediction with an unspecified timeline.
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by ra7 7mo ago
Waymo drives 4 million miles every week (500k+ miles each day). Vast majority of those collisions are when Waymos were stationary (they don’t redact narrative in crash reports like Tesla does, so you know what happened). That is an incredib
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by ra7 7mo ago
> Tesla beating Waymo Heard this for a decade now, but I’m sure this year will be different!
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by ra7 7mo ago
There’s also one where Tesla hit a parked truck: “13781-13644 Street, Heavy truck, No injuries, Proceeding Straight (Heavy truck: parked), 4mph, contact area: left”
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by ra7 7mo ago
They don’t have remote drivers. Your own link says that. > The Waymo Driver does not rely solely on the inputs it receives from the fleet response agent and it is in control of the vehicle at all times. … > The Waymo Driver evaluat
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Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver(waymo.com)
296 points by ra7 7mo ago|410 comments
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by ra7 7mo ago
These videos from Waymo shows what kind of guidance they provide: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T0WtBFEfAyo https://youtube.com/watch?v=elpQPbJXpfY Notice how the system itself reasons about the scene and ask
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Hyundai Motor to supply 50k autonomous vehicles to Waymo by 2028(autonews.gasgoo.com)
2 points by ra7 7mo ago|1 comments
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by ra7 7mo ago
> Tesla is executing the strategy that most quickly scales to 100% of the population. So, uh… where is this “scale” then? This “strategy” has been bandied about for better part of a decade. Why are they still in a tiny geofence in Aust
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by ra7 7mo ago
This is 3D LiDAR output (multimodal) from 2D images.
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by ra7 7mo ago
We know Waymo reduced their LiDAR price from $75,000 to ~$7500 back in 2017 when they started designing them in-house: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/01/googles-waymo-invests-i... That was 2 generations of
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by ra7 7mo ago
The novel aspect here seems to be 3D LiDAR output from 2D video using post-training. As far as I'm aware, no other video world models can do this. IMO, access to DeepMind and Google infra is a hugely understated advantage Waymo has tha

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