by Randall McAdory | Jan 21, 2020 | Aurora Innovation, Chris Urmson, Elon Musk, Waymo
I’ve tackled this question in a number of posts by highlighting Elon Musk’s view that the usage of lidar is an unnecessary crutch on the path to self-driving vehicles. During an interesting Artificial Intelligence podcast with Lex Fridman (July 22, 2019), Chris Urmson...
by Randall McAdory | Jan 20, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, GM Cruise Automation, Mobileye, Waymo
In a recent post, I described how Intel subsidiary, Mobileye, showcased a self-driving vehicle equipped with only cameras traversing the streets of Jerusalem during CES this year. Is Mobileye about to take on Waymo in the rotbotaxi service game? Mobileye’s CEO, Annan...
by Randall McAdory | Jan 18, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, GM Cruise Automation
In a previous post, we learned that GM Cruise Automation was delaying the deployment of its autonomous taxi service beyond the end of 2019. Might the information this week from PR Week be a sign that GM Cruise is now close to launching its self-driving service? The...
by Randall McAdory | Jan 16, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, General Motors, GM Cruise Automation, TaaS, Tesla, Transportation as a Service, Waymo
In the spirit of transparency, I do own shares of stocks of some companies mentioned by me within TaaS Master that are also in the transportations-as-a-service space. You may recall from a previous post that the ecosystem of autonomous companies is large and growing....
by Randall McAdory | Jan 13, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Tesla, Waymo
Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) conducts research in human-centered artificial intelligence, deep learning, autonomous vehicles and robotics at MIT. During a presentation on the state of deep learning in 2020, Fridman compares the benefits and drawbacks of Waymo’s approach...
