pedestrians
2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Carl Pope · across every show →
Everything said about pedestrians, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Pope: At 70% AV adoption, pedestrians will cross streets without looking
“We'll reach a tipping point when, say, 70% of the vehicles on the road are being driven by a robot which, like a horse, will not run someone down. And at that point, pedestrians are going to start crossing streets the way they did in 1900, without looking and …”
Jun 26, 2023 neutral
Waymo could detect pedestrians in 2019, but struggled with over-conservatism
“And if you're always conservative, which was, you know, say four years ago, it was not like we couldn't detect the pedestrians, we could totally detect them. It was this nuance of, are we being over conservative, assuming they may jump in, hence let's not move…”