Cruise

“Cruises driven 400,000 driverless miles and only there's been a few handfuls of these types of things pop up and, you know, nothing, nothing serious as when it comes to safety”

“We went from, you know, nothing to a working prototype that could drive from San Francisco to Palo Alto, you know, the highway stretch of that in about three months, you know, just with a scrappy team working in a garage.”

“And so the technical problems, the software and AI problems are no longer the biggest bottleneck. Now we're turning our attention back to manufacturing and scaling and building out charging and cleaning and maintenance infrastructure in cities.”

“The vehicle we're building called the Origin is designed to last one million miles, which is four or five times as long As the average car will.”

“And so you've got Tesla that maybe has a large amount of low quality data. It's just camera data from a bunch of vehicles. And then you have crews and others that have a lot of Very high resolution, high quality data from these lidars and radars and other sens…”

“Our first time doing that was about two years ago. So I guess I'd, that'd be I think around the end of twenty-twenty... We did our first driverless drive around, you know, a quiet part of San Francisco at night with no one behind the wheel.”

“The reason taxis made sense versus cars that you can go out and buy at a dealership is, you know, with the taxis, it'd be a fleet of vehicles that we would own and maintain. We could limit, you know, where they operated and they operate, they could operate, yo…”

“Our view is that you know, the handful of companies that you know, do this first and start these cycles of iteration and learning, Are probably going to end up with the best products. And it's likely that it becomes harder and harder to catch up as these other…”

“The first is, is that I have very little doubt that self-driving cars will be Many, many, many, many times safer than human drivers to the point where it starts to look a little reckless to let humans drive cars in places where there might be pedestrians and c…”

“It's on the order of a hundred cars, and in the evening, they all start off in parking lots, powered off.”

“When you're driving at speed, this system literally has About the blink of an eye, a couple hundred milliseconds to process all that sensor data, this complex AI problem, make sense of it all, and then send a signal to the vehicle. And so that real time piece …”

“I think in the future, you know, the cost of LiDAR is coming down to the point where they basically cost the same as a camera, and so I wouldn't be surprised if in the future you see Teslas with very low-cost LiDARs, and you might see cruise vehicles with very…”

“They use a bevy of sensors, you know, somewhat similar to cruise and Waymo where we have cameras, we have LIDARs, we have radars, we have thermal cameras as well to help detect people and other living beings at night in particular.”