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10 facts from 10 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2009
Larry Page set a self-driving benchmark of about 1,000 miles of difficult California roads, known as the Larry 1000.
“He comes up with these 10 stretches of road in California that he thinks will be very difficult to drive. It's about 1,000 miles.”
2020
Dara said Uber exited self-driving development because of the pandemic and now works with partners such as Waymo and Aurora.
“Ultimately, because of the pandemic, we decided to get out of self-driving, which I think is, it was a good decision”
Undated
Rabinovich says he is comfortable letting his children ride in Waymo cars but is wary of Uber rides alone.
“I actually let my kids take them. I'm a little apprehensive of my kids getting into Uber on their own, but I'm totally fine with them taking Waymos around them.”
Undated
Rene Haas says he read a New York Times article comparing Waymo's conventional accident counts with those of human drivers.
“I was looking at Waymo, uh, and the number of accidents that Waymo had conventional accidents compared to human drivers.”
Undated
Ylan Kazi says Waymo's self-driving cars outperform most human drivers over a set number of miles.
“Waymo is outperforming most human drivers, you know, over a over a set amount of miles.”
Undated
Joelle Pineau uses Waymo self-driving cars stuck in a parking lot as an example that interactions among many autonomous systems can be harder than classic dilemmas like the trolley problem.
“the problem that really turns out to be hard is like all the Waymo stuck in a parking lot, like spinning their circles”
Undated
David Bray says Waymo vehicles stopped when a power outage occurred, which he cites to show that interconnected AI systems can fail without any cyberattack.
“We saw when the power went out, they stopped, and that was not a cyber attack, it was just the power went out.”
Undated
Raghu cites Waymo's self-driving cars as an example of an AI system made of many components rather than a single model.
“Actually took a a Waymo in today, and, uh, and but that's a that's a system, that's not a single model by itself”
Undated
Todd Vancil cites Waymo's driverless cars as an example of disruption of ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft.
“Waymos are even innovating around Uber, right, with, uh, driverless cars and so forth, right?”
Undated
Joe Rogan says Waymos use LIDAR while Teslas use cameras, and Waymos stalled in a San Francisco outage.
“Waymos operate on LIDAR, whereas Teslas operate on cameras. So the problem with LIDAR, when the grid goes down, so does a car.”
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