Dolgov: AV complexity lies in long-tail reliability, not prototypes or ADAS
Dmitri Dolgov · No Priors Ep. 95 | Best of 2024 · Dec 26, 2024 · at 17:22
Dmitry Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo, explains why building driver-assist systems or autonomous vehicle demos is deceptively easy compared to solving the extreme long tail required for fully driverless safety.
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“The hard problem, and it's kind of like that, the early part of the curve has been getting like, you know, even steeper and steeper, but that's not where the complexity is. The complexity is in the long tail of the many, many, many nines. And you don't see that if you go, you know for a prototype, if you go for, you know, a driver assist system and this is where, you know, we've been spending all of our, that's the only hard part of the problem, right?”
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