Ford CEO shuts down Tesla Full Self-Driving deal, says Waymo is better
Ford CEO shuts down Tesla Full Self-Driving deal, says Waymo is better
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Ford CEO shuts down Tesla Full Self-Driving deal, says Waymo is better
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I hope someone posts Elmos butthurt tweets about this, so I don't have to visit his cancer site.
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Reacting to the news:
"They cost Waymo money"
The typical high-IQ reaction to being abandoned as de-facto standard in a new realm of tech competition.
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Just an fyi, you can replace any garbage x url with xcancel.com to prevent having to go to his site. In a perfect world we wouldn’t need it, but I wanted to make you aware of it
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All because Elon was too cheap to add lidar
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Yeah but they're not wrong. I prefer Waymo to Uber/Lyft. Slightly pricier but there's no tipping so it balances out.
They're also more consistent. I never have to worry about Waymo parking in front of the wrong building, then fucking off with 2 minutes left on the timer. They park in the right spot every time. They sometimes make stupid mistakes like not using the middle lane to turn left, but overall they drive more safely than the average human driver. The radar sees everything; one time a Waymo avoided an accident that I would have never seen coming. Speaking of which, I like how you can see what it sees on the touchscreen for peace of mind.
Overall, I'm okay with using a Google service every once in a blue moon to have a much better taxi cab experience.
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Everyone here should check out comma.ai’s open pilot. It is similar to Teslas self driving system, but it’s open source. Perfect Elon replacement. And since they tap into the sensors on your existing car, I imagine they could leverage lidar if more cars had those sensors.
They sell hardware that is designed to run open pilot. Last I checked it was $1k, which feels pretty reasonable compared to what Elon is charging.
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Similar how? Tesla has over 2 billion self driving miles, comma's own website says it's 100 million. Where's the comparison?
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I know they both have semi autonomous systems that don’t rely on lidar. The navigate on autopilot presentation comma gave years ago seemed very Tesla. Comma’s self driving capabilities seem to lag a couple years behind Tesla.
I like George Hotz and I know the Lemmy community prefers open source tech, so I wanted to bring some awareness to an alternative you can add to your current car. But I know very little about self driving tech. Maybe I’m wrong in calling them similar.
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As much as I don't like self-driving cars, I must admit that Waymo indeed seems better.
However it would be interesting to see how this self-driving tech could be implemented in personal vehicles.
Tesla's "full self driving" is not a possibility for people without a driving license. AFAIK you already need to drive in order to have "full self driving", while Waymo can just act as a regular taxi but without a full time driver. And they don't just rely on cameras.
As someone without a driver's license the difference between both is enormous, but for a car company like Ford looking for real self driving, you also want something proved to be actually working without the need to be actively monitored by a human.
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As much as I don't like self-driving cars
Why?
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Because they still have all the disadvantages of cars and they don't really bring anything of value. A car is dangerous for the people around not in a car, inefficient at transporting people, takes valuable space, and pollutes the air with tire and brake dust particles. They are also noisy. Electric cars won't change that.
In the case of Tesla, FSD is just a gadget for car owners that somehow don't want to drive cars.
In the case of Waymo, they are not a solution to relieve transit in busy cities. There's even more cars now, but without a driver and sometimes they get stuck and still need to call for help.
If you want me to get mildly excited for an autonomous vehicle, show me a train or a metro. Otherwise, if people want to get to places without driving, we already have solutions for that, but apparently it's better to ask everyone to buy a private autonomous vehicle that requires a driving license and won't work in the country side, rather than speak of the horrors of the T word.
EDIT: I know which community I'm in and didn't want to get into this but I was asked. Self driving cars are also wasting energy because of the computing power needed to process all the stuff that a human brain was already processing "for free". Now, instead of having billions of cars that require significantly more energy than transit to move around one or maybe two humans, we will have billions of cars that requires even more energy to plot courses and drive the individual cars around.
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I hope we eventually get full self driving cars, I'm so sick of driving
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I guess I can understand if you live in a place without public transit, but if this is the case, it's also remote enough so that "self driving cars" may not get there for some time. Waymo is using mapping tech and is not going out of a city any time soon.
And if your self driving vehicle is restricted to a single city or area, it becomes a matter of that city asking everyone to buy or use a self driving car because they can't finance an adequate and efficient public transit system.
It's just a gadget.
EDIT: I don't have car and already don't drive anywhere. Just like millions of other people in the world. But apparently, if you don't want to drive, you need a car that drives for you. There is simply no other solution.
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Womp womp.
It's almost as if removing LiDAR cameras in favor of traditional cameras "because they're stupid" was the most idiotic ketamine-fueled decision a company could ever make. Why anyone believes Teslas can drive themselves in uncertain situations is beyond me.
The even crazier part is that with all of their advancements in software, they'd probably legitimately have fsd launched and running well by now, given how much driving data they can ingest at will, if they'd just included a few hundred dollars worth of low resolution lidar and ultrasonics. Irrc they stated they were having issues with chain of trust among the sensors, but I'm not sure I believe that.
Well, do we know what the blockers are for Tesla?
I feel like when I watch videos of FSD on cars, the representation of the world on the screen is rather good.
Now given this datapoint of me watching maybe 30minutes of video in total, is the issue in:
a) creating the distance to obstacles in the surroundings from cameras or in:
b) reading street signs, road markings, stop lights etc, or in:
c) doing the right thing, given a correct set of data about the surroundings?
Lidar / Radar / Sonar would only help for a).
Or is it combination of all of them, and the (relatively) cheap sensor would at least eliminate a), so one could focus on b and c?
To be fair, Elon probably wasn’t taking ketamine back when he made that decision. He made that decision all by himself :)
I actually think this is kinda unfair. Up until recently, the only self driving system actually worth a shit was Tesla's. Due to the way it collected street data and upcycled it. The problem is that the system they implemented has a ceiling, but it was heads and tails above all competition for a while. Waymo are benefiting from not being Musk related, but as things stand, they're using more tele-operators than Tesla did for the normal Tesla's. Compared to the Robotaxis, who knows. That will come out in a few years.
Tesla had passable autopilot, but full self-driving has always been dogshit...
It was ok-ish when it had lidar