With many fold less miles driven than Tesla, in very limited testing with few vehicles...
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With many fold less miles driven than Tesla, in very limited testing with few vehicles...
Uber is run by Leeroy Jenkins.
Tesla’s autonomy uses Nvidia hardware.
Yes, just FYI, we do not have the full report yet. Just the info this site managed to snag. I guess the reports were briefly available and taken down? But will be re-uploaded later this week, so we'll certainly add more detail when it's available. I suspect Apple will provide some color as to why these numbers are what they are.
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17,000 km per disengagement for Waymo. Perhaps they drive in circles in Arizona retirement communities.
GM Cruise is looking good.
Why is BlackBerry's autonomous driving rank not in this list?
GM Cruise is looking good.
Why is BlackBerry's autonomous driving rank not in this list?
For that many disengagements, you’d think Apple must have put Siri in charge of the autonomous program.
Yes, my question too: possibly Tesla is not is attempting the level are the others are testing for??
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OK, someone answered it: NVIDIA equals Tesla
I worked for Steve at NeXT and Apple, he wasn't nearly as engaged as the world fantasizes.
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Wow. Maybe it's good they fired all those people from that project.
That being said, it seems possible if not likely that companies are testing for different things so who really knows what these numbers mean. If they're directly comparable then it's horrible for Apple, if not then you can't really draw a conclusion.
Also with Apple being somewhat late to this segment, I imagine they're behind where a lot of companies are now. It's possible they catch up in a few years, but we kept saying that about Siri and it never really happened (although the gap has closed a bit in the last 1-2 years, maybe).
That being said, it seems possible if not likely that companies are testing for different things so who really knows what these numbers mean. If they're directly comparable then it's horrible for Apple, if not then you can't really draw a conclusion.
Also with Apple being somewhat late to this segment, I imagine they're behind where a lot of companies are now. It's possible they catch up in a few years, but we kept saying that about Siri and it never really happened (although the gap has closed a bit in the last 1-2 years, maybe).
Remind me - Who's the world's favourite company to sue?
I think too much is being read into that report.
I think too much is being read into that report.
Every day I'm more tempted to disengage from Apple.
Only Apple could come up with a new form of Aluminium to reduce disengagements to the lowest number of any product Apple ha ever produced.
*confused smattering of light applause*
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They're making their own chips now, though, and they hired an Apple chip guy for the project.
--Eric
Should not be shocking at all.
Nvidia has been having hardware chipsets used within Audi's own MMI systems (coded using BlackBerry's QNX interconnects) for over a decade. Where have you been?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_Media_Interface
NVidia Tegra chipset ... you recall this right?
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/self-driving-cars/partners/audi/
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/...-world-s-most-advanced-ai-car-on-road-by-2020
Planned since 2017.
NVidia does NOT rest on their laurels or burn through cashflow needlessly or wastefully or tastelessly
To be fair, the system was probably using Apple Maps, so the driver... every mile or so.... realized they were off course and had to adjust setting.... 
But in all seriousness.... that's just plain embarrassing.
But in all seriousness.... that's just plain embarrassing.
Well given the level of perfection Apple goes to (don’t start about the “New Apple”) I can see how they would have more bugs to work out. More detail = more effort = more mistakes.
That is incorrect. Tesla's second generation autopilot CPU is provided by NVIDIA. The software is their own.
Their third generation hardware is their own.
I suspect Tesla is getting around reporting this by not paying people to test full self driving. They've been selling vehicles with full self driving to their own employees at discounted prices (giving them the battery upgrade, premium upgrade package, and full self driving all for free vs selling them for $2900, $5000, and $9000 respectively). Tesla pushes internal autopilot builds to those employees (including CEO Elon Musk) and allow them to use them in their daily lives as opposed to paying them to test.
I (an ordinary customer) use autopilot on a daily basis for my 30 miles to and from work. I probably disengage once every few miles, generally because the public build isn't sufficiently aggressive... Tesla harvests the data on how autopilot handles my daily commute... so am I testing the software? Or am I using it? Is there a difference?
I think what is really scary is BMW & Mercedes were not far off and they are actually in the car business.... sad..really sad!!