I love a good Oliver Cameron tweet in my timeline 😊
In another tweet, Kyle Vogt shared:
I can attest that there was no talk of expanding to Austin when I was at Cruise four months ago.
They’re moving fast over there, and it’s fun to see!
Originally published at http://davidsilver.blog on September 12, 2022.
Baidu’s Apollo self-driving car program has received permission to operate fully driverlessly in Wuhan and Chongqing.
For a long time Apollo has been operating driverless robotaxis in Beijing, but with a “chaperone” in the front seat. This next phase will see riders travel in the cars completely unaccompanied.
Originally published at http://davidsilver.blog on August 10, 2022.
Kodiak just announced its longest delivery run to-date: 5,600 miles from Texas to California to Florida and back to Texas. The route was part of the kick-off of a partnership with 10 Roads, a freight carrier for high-priority USPS parcels.
One of Kodiak’s advantages is a lightweight process for building highway maps, that allows Kodiak to map highways for autonomous driving after a single human-driven run. That scalability enabled us to quickly prepare the entire round-trip, coast-to-coast route.
Kodiak CEO Don Burnette shared with TechCrunch that “the autonomous system was engaged over 90% of the time.”
One my current projects at Kodiak is helping to bring that engagement rate even higher, especially with respect to construction zones. If that sounds exciting, you should join us!
I enjoyed joining Ryan Dsouza’s Conversations podcast to discuss self-driving cars, deep learning, and the work we’re doing at Cruise to launch autonomous vehicles to the public!
Originally published at http://davidsilver.blog on February 7, 2022.
Cruise is opening fully driverless vehicles to the public in San Francisco, California! I took my own first driverless ride this week and it was amazing!
Join the Cruise Rider Community on our homepage. You can even sign up if you live outside of San Francisco (it just might take a little longer for us to get to you).
Originally published at http://davidsilver.blog on February 4, 2022.
On Monday evening, I met my manager, Jason, in San Francisco, to take my first-ever driverless ride. We hailed Torta, one of Cruise’s fully driverless vehicles, to take us from Bob’s Donuts to Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park, and back. With nobody behind the wheel!
It was amazing!
#LifeAtCruise
Originally published at http://davidsilver.blog on February 3, 2022.
