The Road to Autonomous Vehicles: Are We There Yet?
Self-driving cars have been on the horizon for quite some time. But, they might actually be here.
We got to ride around in one all over San Francisco with Waymo’s Chief Product Officer, Saswat Panigrahi.
We discussed so much, including the five levels of autonomy, the infamous LIDAR vs video debate, regulation, UX, and the role of AI in fine-tuning these models. But most importantly, if autonomy is here… now what?!
Topics Covered:
00:00 - Introduction
03:20 - A first look at Waymo
05:21 - 5 levels of autonomy
09:45 - Technology challenges
14:32 - LiDAR vs video debate
18:19 - How Waymo…
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