Dolgov: Trucking and delivery AVs cannot bypass full autonomy's core complexity
Dmitri Dolgov · No Priors Ep. 87 | With Co-CEO of Waymo Dmitri Dolgov · Oct 24, 2024 · at 35:58
Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov explains why autonomous vehicle startups targeting freight trucking or low-speed delivery still face the same fundamental AI complexity as passenger robotaxis.
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“And then they're a little bit different, but if we're talking about full autonomy, maybe there's second order differences, But the first order of complexity is still there. You can, ah, like the, if you think about, you know, the core, the heart of the problem of, you know, building a generalizable and safe driver, and, you know, being able to evaluate it, and the incredibly high bar of safety, the, you know, complexity of the noisy, messy physical environment, and the long tail of, you know, people, you know, doing all kinds of, you know, weird things, ah, and, ah, the necessity of making real-time decisions where milliseconds, you know, matter, and like how hard that AI problem is, ah, it's, you know, the distribution, the contours change a little bit if you're, you know, talking about, you know, freeways or roller speeds, but the fundamentals are, like, you don't get, like, there's no silver bullets, you don't get to skip the, you know, core complexity.”
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