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Coogan: Waymo injury crash rate is five times lower than human drivers
“The best data that we have on Waymo is all any injury crashes per million miles. For the average human, it's about four any injury crashes. So any injury that counts, four per million miles. Waymo is way better. 0.75. So about five times safer.”
Coogan: Waymo sources parts from China but builds vehicles in US
“So Waymo is sourcing like almost all the parts for the new Waymo's from China, but they are building them, I believe in the United States and all of the software is from Google or Alphabet or Waymo.”
Coogan: Waymo sources powertrains and batteries from Chinese EV makers
“So Waymo is sourcing the powertrain and battery from Chinese EV manufacturers, but none of the telemetry, telecommunication systems, IT systems, that's all Waymo.”
Alphabet is vertically integrated from chips and AI to autonomous robotics
“He's got the data center, he's got the chip, right? Tensor, right? He's got, he does a lot of the operating system type work, including the model, you know, the Gemini model, the applications he does as well, and he even gets all the way to the robotic layer, …”
Coogan highlights Keras powering ML at YouTube, Netflix, and Waymo
“I mean, he built Keras. Powers ML solutions that countless companies touch. It powers your recommendations on YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, the fraud filtering of your credit card transactions, Waymo cars that drive you around San Francisco.”