self-driving cars
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Pieter Levels quoted
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone
Our readingVery few logistics jobs currently exist that will not be done better by a self-driving vehicle
Their wordsThere's very few logistics jobs now that won't be done way better by a self driving vehicle
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Pieter Levels quoted
Our readingReplacing humans in trucks with self-driving vehicles will lead to fewer accidents and deaths
Their wordsThe faster we replace humans in trucks with self driving vehicles, the less accidents and deaths we'll have
- 5 days earlier
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Peter Steinberger quoted
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade
Their wordsthe Waymo effect is what happens when a technology removes the friction of dealing with another human being
- 3 weeks earlier
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Nan Yu quoted
Works on product for Codex at OpenAI
Their wordssomething that looks a lot like self-driving is probably going to be the the thing that really you know becomes much more important and prominent in the next year.
↗Stop planning for 2027: how OpenAI builds product 90 days at a time | Tara Sesha and Nan Yu (OpenAI) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 18th of 18 in this recording
- 6 days earlier
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Tynan quoted
American writer and long-term traveller
Our readingTesla will eventually upgrade Hardware 3 cars to newer self-driving hardware, possibly for free.
Their wordsI think it's inevitable that a HW3 will be able to be upgraded, possibly for free.
↗How to Buy a Tesla and Get FSD For Freetynan.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Tynan quoted
Their wordsEven without new hardware, the pace of improvement is extremely fast.
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Tynan quoted
Their wordsEven without new hardware, the pace of improvement is extremely fast.
↗How to Buy a Tesla and Get FSD For Freetynan.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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Armin Ronacher quoted
Creator of Flask and Jinja
Their wordsif I was stuck in this traffic every day in a car, I would go insane. No amount of self driving would change that. We need ACs, but the US badly needs to warm up to public transportation.
- 5 days earlier
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Travis Kalanick quoted
Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber
Their wordsSo, we know Phelps is the gold medals guy, but I like to say that transport is full of silver medals, right? A lot of people think about ride sharing as a gold medal. What about food delivery? What about parcel delivery?
↗Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical Worldyoutube.com 5th of 14 in this recording
- 11 days earlier
- DD
Dmitri Dolgov quoted
Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project
Their wordsAnd a working demo is 1% at best of the work that you have to do. The many nines of performance, the many nines of reliability that follow, that's where the real work happens.
↗Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Workyoutube.com 5th of 22 in this recording
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Dmitri Dolgov quoted
Their wordsIt took us about 10 more years to begin providing a service, and then 5 more years to scale to half a million trips per week. So, the demo took 18 months, the product took about 15 years.
↗Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Workyoutube.com 6th of 22 in this recording
- DD
Dmitri Dolgov quoted
Their wordsreliability and performance lives on this exponential ladder of nines. So, getting to that first 90% or 99%, that's the easy part. But then every next nine that you want to add, that takes about 10 times more effort.
↗Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Workyoutube.com 7th of 22 in this recording
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Dmitri Dolgov quoted
Our readingAt scale the long tail stops being an edge case and becomes the entire problem statement.
Their wordsAnd at scale, the long tail is the problem space, is your entire problem statement. When you drive millions of miles per week, a rare event that might happen once in a million miles, that just becomes your daily reality.
↗Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Workyoutube.com 8th of 22 in this recording
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Dmitri Dolgov quoted
Their wordscommon failure mode is picking the tech that gives you the fastest early ramp, riding that steep curve, feeling like you're winning, projecting that, you know, steep slope into the future and feeling like the sky is the limit, and then hitting the plateau, and discovering that the technology path that you picked actually flattens out way before the performance that is required by your product.
↗Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Workyoutube.com 10th of 22 in this recording
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Dmitri Dolgov quoted
Their wordsHowever, if you are targeting full autonomy, and you're targeting superhuman, strongly superhuman performance, you find that weak sensing just leads to a safety curve that flattens out way too early.
↗Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Workyoutube.com 11th of 22 in this recording
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Dmitri Dolgov quoted
Their wordsTurns out, the task of driving is not that dissimilar from the task of modeling language uh because of the social aspects of driving. You're kind of having a conversation with other dynamic actors in the world, but you're doing that in the space kind of body language of your agent, your car, as opposed to just the language of words.
↗Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Workyoutube.com 13th of 22 in this recording
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Dmitri Dolgov quoted
Their wordsBut if you need to reach superhuman levels of performance in a fully autonomous agent in a safety-critical environment, uh, just doing kind of that basic vanilla end-to-end is not enough.
↗Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Workyoutube.com 15th of 22 in this recording
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Dmitri Dolgov quoted
Their wordsYour your models can be leaked, algorithms can be replicated, but hundreds of millions of miles of fully autonomous operations in the real world, backed by evidence-grade evaluation and publicly audited proof, that is much, much more difficult to replicate.
↗Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Workyoutube.com 21st of 22 in this recording
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Dmitri Dolgov quoted
Their wordsin the areas where we operate, the Waymo driver is about 17 times better than human drivers when it comes to crashes uh that cause serious injury.
↗Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Workyoutube.com 22nd of 22 in this recording
- 12 days earlier
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Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsThe French and Germans will ban Tesla FSD to protect their car industry that's being decimated by Chinese EVs and Tesla Allowing Tesla full self driving would make it so popular that it'd probably the end of their car industry Because no French or German car has self driving like Tesla, many customers would probably flock to Tesla
↗The French and Germans will ban Tesla FSD to protect their car industrylevels.io
- 2 weeks earlier
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Brad Templeton quoted
Software architect and writer who has been publishing…
Their wordsSeveral companies have tried to declare they met a major milestone by having "nobody behind the wheel" and moving supervision to the passenger seat. It's a bad idea
↗Robotaxi Companies Need To Stop It With The Right Seat Safety Driversideas.4brad.com
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Brad Templeton quoted
Their wordsMore data for better comparisons are good. Now everybody has to do it, and regulators and the public have to learn to look at only the data, and not individual incidents
↗Waymo Releases Apples-To-Apples Incident Data, It Speaks To Regulationideas.4brad.com
- 6 weeks earlier
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Brad Templeton quoted
Their words13 years ago, at the Wired 2013 event in London, I was asked when robotaxis would arrive there and as a joke, gave an answer of June 22, 2026 that turned out to be impossibly spot on.
- 12 days earlier
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Timothy B. Lee quoted
Journalist with a computer science master's degree who has…
Their wordsI wish Tensor the best, but I think this is going to be a hard sell.
↗Why it might not make sense for you to own a self-driving carunderstandingai.org
- 4 weeks earlier
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Brad Templeton quoted
Their wordsSelf-driving cars seem to be just more cars, and people who dislike cars don't love that. But the electric robotaxi offers much more potential
↗Urbanists Hate Cars. Should They Hate Electric Robotaxis?ideas.4brad.com
- 6 days earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsNow one way it could map out is that the agents will get so good that they stop making mistakes. They become senior in their capacity to ship working code. This is what my bet would be if we look x amount of time forward because this is what just happened with cars.
↗DHH’s new way of writing codeyoutube.com 12th of 21 in this recording
- 2 months earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsit'd be a world where agents, like self-driving cars, don't need special equipment, like LIDAR or MCPs, to interact with the environment
- 4 weeks earlier
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Jensen Huang quoted
Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA since 1993
Their wordsAnd if you look at the robo taxis that are that are even on the streets today, it's taken 10 years for that to happen. Look at all the maintenance crews and all of the the the various, you know, hubs that they're in where you have to take care of these robo taxis and just imagine we have a billion robots.
↗NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang on Reasoning Models, Robotics, and Refuting the “AI Bubble” Narrativeyoutube.com 5th of 20 in this recording
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Jensen Huang quoted
Their wordsinstead of just perception cars and planning cars, they're going to be reasoning cars. So, these cars are going to be thinking all the time.
↗NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang on Reasoning Models, Robotics, and Refuting the “AI Bubble” Narrativeyoutube.com 15th of 20 in this recording
- 7 days earlier
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Rodney Brooks quoted
Robotics researcher, emeritus professor at MIT and former…
Their wordsTesla (owned by Tesla) has put on a facade of being operational, but it is not operational in the sense of the other two services, and faces regulatory headwinds that both Waymo and Zoox have long been able to satisfy. They are not on a path to becoming a real service.
↗Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01rodneybrooks.com 1st of 3 in this piece