Waymo

“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.”

“The issue was, you know, X really looks for a very specific type of project. Their ideal project is something like the self-driving car, Waymo, where you have to invest a lot of money up front to create, ideally, something software or software adjacent, like a…”

“What we very consistently see, and I guess I would love if To hear if that matches your experience, but once people get in the car, just, you know, after a couple of minutes, they get very comfortable and they go back to, you know, doing whatever they want to …”

“That study that Swiss RE has done was very encouraging that when they looked at, you know, almost four million miles of, you know, our fully autonomous operation, they found that massive reduction in, you know, a hundred percent reduction in the bodily injury …”

“We have a fleet in San Francisco of about 250 vehicles. You know, they're not all out at the same time, but it gives you an approximate order of magnitude.”

“I definitely agree with the latter, and I would not dismiss the former. 10 years is a, you know, reasonably long time, and, you know, things can happen nonlinearly.”

“The first one was to drive a 100,000 miles in autonomous mode. That was, you know, way more than orders of magnitude, more than, you know, what anybody has done at that time. And the second one, and, you know, actually that one turned out to be more interestin…”

“For the actions of, you know, the Waymo driver. The responsibility, you know, lies, you know, with Waymo.”

“The sensors at that time, you know, didn't have the level of reliability or capability that we would need, that we would trust, you know, to go to full autonomy. So we build, you know that generation had our own lighters and, you know custom sensor suite.”

“On the current generation, we have kind of all of them, including internal ones, we have 29 cameras.”

“I don't think we ever seriously entertained building a car. It just never made sense, you know, to me, you know, or others to, you know, do that. Like we're not a car company. Building cars hard, right? There's many companies that, you know, spend a hundred ye…”

“One was what we learned from people using the driver assist system. They would overtrust it. They, you know, would put on makeup and, you know, text and, you know, one guy actually fell asleep.”