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Kalinowski: Home robots face tougher consumer adoption than autonomous vehicles
“There's a big difference between a car that is safer, that drives itself versus a car that a human drives, because you have an existence proof of the human driving car and you have the data. When you talk about homes, what is the delta? You have now a thing th…”
McCabe: Uber added female driver options because women feel safer in Waymo
“And I guarantee the reason they're doing that is because women love Waymo because they feel safer.”
Nickels: Waymo has largely solved self-driving in complex environments like San Francisco
“I would say what's really interesting about Waymo is they've largely solved the self-driving piece, right? However they've done that. Right. And we, and in a complex environment like San Francisco, and they, you see them driving in fog and rain and puddles and…”
Shrivastava: Waymo engineered for full autonomy from inception, unlike Tesla
“Since you mentioned Tesla, you know, I just want to clarify that it's a different system that we're building, right? Which is for Waymo, we started by solving the problem of fully autonomous driving without a human driver at the wheel from the get-go, right? I…”
Nickels: Scaling AV fleets requires operational and marketplace skills beyond autonomy
“Building a self-driving car on a test track is a very different problem statement than scaling a fleet of thousands of cars. And how do you operate them, clean them, charge them, maintain them. And then how do you build a rideshare network? It's like, okay, we…”
Shrivastava: Autonomous vehicles must balance safety with assertiveness to make progress
“Hey, you can be very safe if you're not moving at all. That's not what we're building, right? We need to make sure that the riders get to their destination on time. So it has to be making, it has to be appropriately assertive and be making the right progress.”
Shrivastava: Autonomous vehicles require a fundamentally higher MVP bar due to safety
“The concept of MVP, right, which is so Why be popular in the SaaS product management world or product management world in general has a whole new meaning here at Babel when you work on a product like this, because safety is, is, you know, top of mind for all o…”
Shrivastava: Autonomous vehicles must learn location-specific social driving norms
“A lot of driving is also social norms, right? It's if you, if you're in a particular, you know, section in San Francisco, you know, maybe it's okay for pedestrians to cross even when they don't have a walk sign, right? Another city, another intersection might …”
Nickels: Uber's autonomous strategy is aggregating AV fleets onto its platform
“And right now, you know, our kind of stated you know, strategy is to be an aggregator, right? So it's like, we are partnering with Waymo, with Cruise, Motional, others in China, et cetera. And then, you know, the idea is to have every vehicle on the platform r…”
Shrivastava: Waymo calls unbuckled passengers and displays sensor perception inside vehicles
“The, if they're not wearing the seatbelt, the writer support would call them, right? So then they know, okay, there's a human. That they can reach out to if they have an issue, they can look at the monitor in the car, right? To understand what the car is seein…”
Shrivastava: Waymo slows down on steep San Francisco hills for comfort
“We realized that for driving in the, in sort of the slopes or the gradients you know, the street with inclines in, in San Francisco, there are many of those, right? The human brain is trained to, or the human drivers are sort of, you know, subconsciously, they…”
Shrivastava: Waymo will expand autonomous testing in Los Angeles throughout 2023
“We have done initial fully autonomous testing in LA and we're going to be expanding in LA through the rest of the year.”
Shrivastava: Waymo vehicles cannot drive in snow yet
“In terms of the blocker, I would say the technology is there, but it still needs improvement, especially, you know, we were not able to drive in snow yet, right? Something that we have to tackle in future.”
Shrivastava: Waymo models detect pedestrian gaze and body orientation for intent
“We have you know, deep learned models that can understand what the other road user's intent is. So stuff like, you know, which way the pedestrian is looking, right? Or what is their body orientation? Because that could tell you know, what, which way they're he…”