Autonomous vehicles require full-stack hardware and software to maintain iteration speed
Saswat Panigrahi · Are Autonomous Vehicles Finally Here? Buckle up! · Jun 26, 2023 · at 9:13
Waymo Chief Product Officer Saswat Panigrahi explains why Waymo chose an integrated full-stack strategy of building its own sensors, hardware, software, and simulation infrastructure.
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“And the technology, and it really required the full stack, right? We build the hardware, we build the software, because if you built just the software and waited for somebody else to deliver the hardware, the speed of learning, the speed of iteration that was necessary to build something like this was So steep that it was not feasible. So we had to build the lasers, the cameras, the radars, and the software on top, and the massive simulation infrastructure as well.”
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