Autonomous Driving

“And then the real, real, real bottleneck for these, all these companies, whether you're talking about autonomous driving or industrial robotics or human robotics with, in terms of AI integration is that they don't have enough physical data.”

“This stuff is still moving way slower than I think people anticipated. It hasn't been, you know, way more in San Francisco resulting in, you know, way more everywhere within six months. It's been a long, steady progress. For Waymo.”

“We think that it's going to be more like a peeling an audience analogy, where you start from a really strong base model that have all sorts of common sense knowledge and already works to some extent on your robot, and you have then a Mixed autonomy system. Ver…”

“If you're driving a level two system or a level three system or a level four system, For 99.9999, like three or four nine, identical. The difference is like the fifth or sixth or seventh nine on that is these like extreme corner cases.”

“I mean, I think by 2030, it'll be It's inconceivable to buy a car and not expect it to drive itself.”

“Like I think autonomous driving and robotics are maybe the mother of all, you know, markets that are coming on AI.”

“The difference is that the roads, even though things are complex and dynamic and all that kind of stuff on the road, the roads are the same. Like that's the same roads. You're getting from point A to point B and the way that that works, like you, there's a zil…”

“I think you'll start to see real autonomous driving over the next five years. You know, maybe I'll be burned by that prediction.”

“If you're making a bet on the right technical approach in 20, 25, it does not involve a bunch of expensive LIDARs or exotic sensors. It involves the most commodity is sort of, you know, high volume, readily available sensors you can get, and probably just seve…”

“On the one hand, you know, for years, everyone keeps telling me we're going to conquer driving, we're going to conquer driving. I'm like, no, you're not. It's just literally not going to happen anytime soon.”

“The architecture is an enabler, but really to make it work at the level that we care about, you need like everything around it. The data engine, the whole, you know, flywheel of, you know, training the system, evaluating it. And you kind of have to think about…”

“So the basics are easy when you can drive down the freeway. Cars are all going in the same direction. There's no pedestrians. There's good lane markings. That's really a solved problem.”

“People just dramatically underestimated how difficult it really is to truly replace a driver and how difficult it is to enable autonomous driving like capabilities.”

“So now go to an autonomous driving world. You won't see DUIs. Those things are programmed to not speed. Obviously, they're not going to run if you don't put your seatbelt on.”

“Oh, autonomous driving is going to get rid of every Uber driver. You know, if that happens within 30 years, I'll be shocked.”

“Manipulation is today is probably where autonomous driving was five or six years ago, where you can already see the capability starting to take form, but the reliability and cost constraints are still pretty prohibitive, but you can kind of extrapolate where i…”

“When you talk about having RRL applied in say like autonomous driving, having a car drive around and learn how to drive, you know, by crashing a million times isn't tractable as a, you know, as an algorithm. So it's, you know, being able to do all that simulat…”

“And so my, one of my latest investments was in the autonomous driving space. It's a full autonomous driving sort of system, including the new, a new LIDAR system and the software and everything that bundles with that. And that hasn't been announced yet.”

“A lot of the companies that have exited thus far have done so on very little proof points.”