You were training Google’s AI. “At peak, 200 million reCAPTCHAs were solved every single day.” Sharbel argues those clicks were free data annotation from people just trying to log in, and that it helped train computer vision for products like […]
Robotaxis. “I maintain that robotaxis will first grow by replacing cabs, then by taking new use cases that were previously impossible… A key input is going to be the cost of each car: The cheaper they are, the cheaper the […]
Meanwhile, Waymo is coming to NYC. “The Alphabet autonomous vehicle subsidiary received its first permit from the New York Department of Transportation on Friday to start testing in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday. The rollout is the […]
These self-driving cars have taken over my part of Austin and it’s surreal. In this post Harry Campbell, aka “The Rideshare Guy” since 2014, unpacks the company’s strategic options for scaling the service outside of its current few markets. ~ […]
“Today, we’re sharing our new cutting-edge research with Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading reinsurers, analyzing liability claims related to collisions from 25.3 million fully autonomous miles driven by Waymo. … It demonstrates that … the Waymo Driver significantly […]
“Today, we’re sharing our new cutting-edge research with Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading reinsurers, analyzing liability claims related to collisions from 25.3 million fully autonomous miles driven by Waymo. … It demonstrates that … the Waymo Driver significantly […]
“Every day, Waymo’s driverless autonomous vehicles gather in the parking lot on 2nd and Harrison streets to park between rides and recharge. Periodically, the high-tech vehicles start honking at each other.” I just saw a guy in Austin getting out […]
“For this story, I read through every crash report Waymo and Cruise filed in California this year, as well as reports each company filed about the performance of their driverless vehicles (with no safety drivers) prior to 2023.” I look […]
“In a recent video, The Kilowatts partnered with Whole Mars Blog (Omar Qazi) and Arash Malek to see what happens when Tesla’s FSD Beta, Waymo, and Cruise all compete to see who can get around San Francisco faster and with […]
“At launch, the Waymo One app-based robotaxi service had a trained vehicle operator assigned to every vehicle, ready to take over if needed. Now Waymo is ditching the safety driver and opening up a fully driverless service to the public […]