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The four spinny things on top are Velodyne HDL32 lidar, about $32k each (Ford gets an unknown discount I'm sure). Ford is working hand in hand with Velodyne to develop the next gen lidar. The course they are on is Univ Michigan's MCity autonomous testing course. I toured it when it opened and...

Ford is working on winter driving. Part of the problem is that the people speaking about vehicular autonomy are selling a product/brand, or are researchers trying to get grant money. All the automotive companies are in the dust compared to Google, and they're all trying to step up their game...

I don't think Tesla will make that because: 1. They haven't demonstrated much yet. 2. They're generally late (and that's ok). I'm excited to see what they put out though. Let's do an avatar bet that Tesla doesn't have a level 5 autonomous car in the hands of consumers by Q1 2018. Note that...

What's funny is the evening after I made this post I was approaching a red light during a sunset. As it turned green the car traveling perpendicularly to me and toward the sun screeched to halt in the middle of the intersection. He backed up and gave me a sheepish look as I safely turned on his...

In five years youll probably see freightliner, peterbilt and some others with very limited releases of freeway driving trucks being tested.

What Tesla has in market now, supercruise, is imminent. It works well on the highway in good conditions. Delphi, Bosch et all have a system that's going into new cars and I think it'll be a standard feature in luxury cars in 5-10 years. But general purpose autonomy like the google car is...

I think at 1N/W you have a perpetual motion machine.

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I think you'd just have something that would quickly burn up and a bunch of nerds would argue whether its orbit was decaying the right way. These things produce so much heat that thermal expansion of the heat sink is the primary possible error source.

As cool as V2x is, it's not a generalized solution and future-looking autonomy is going to have to work on that dirt road in the back of your hunting ground, or anywhere really. Besides that, most vehicles won't know where they are with a huge degree of accuracy and you'll absolutely want some...

Very feasible and vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure comms are being actively worked on: Vehicle-to-vehicle - Wikipedia http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/rulemaking/pdf/V2V/Readiness-of-V2V-Technology-for-Application-812014.pdf

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There's a tremendous amount of focus on security and it's a huge issue but I think it'll end up being easier to hack vehicles by dropping a boulder off an overpass onto them. Somebody actually did that to my aunt and it was inches away from killing my cousin when he was a baby.

Yep, and that's just one of the many behavioral challenges that autonomous vehicles have to surmount to be production ready. And it's easy-mode in the US compared to other countries. In places like India motorcyclists can just be modeled via fluid dynamics given how little they observe any laws...

Motorcycles are a significant case that autonomy has to solve, but I expect that it's one of the many cases where autonomy will be able to track motorcycles with much better accuracy than human drivers will, even if it's a problematic case today for Tesla or whomever else. Motorcycles are tough...