High quality data is the fuel that powers AI algorithms. Without a continual flow of labeled data, bottlenecks can occur and the algorithm will slowly get worse and add risk to the system. It’s why labeled data is so critical for companies like Zoox, Cruise and Waymo, which use it to train machine learning models… Read More »
Autonomous vehicle companies including Cruise, Wing, and Nuro called for clearer regulation during an online Consumer Technology Association event.Read More Read the original article
In 2016, when I was starting to build Udacity’s Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree Program, it was so hard to find a good vehicle… Continue reading on Self-Driving Cars » Read the original article
Innovating in Place: How One Argo Engineer Transformed His Backyard Into a Doppler Radar Testing Lab If you tried to imagine a person who would be ideally suited for life in quarantine, Jonathan Berry might be that guy. “I understand the feel of going feral,” laughs Jonathan, a senior hardware engineer working out of Argo AI’s… Read More »
This story is a part of “We Are Argo,” an ongoing series featuring unique stories and diverse experiences from Argo AI employees. Read more about “We Are Argo” and meet additional members of the Argo team here. Irving Tejocote, Service Technician, Argo AI Growing up in Texas, Irving’s family business was built on the assumption that cars… Read More »
Waymo’s new machine learning model — SurfelGAN — simulates autonomous vehicle camera data highly realistically.Read More Read the original article
UK-based driving simulation company, rFpro, has developed a means to slash the hardware costs associated with large-scale simulation. The ground-breaking development has the potential to remove the industry’s dependence on manual annotation of test data that is created frame-by-frame, which is both time-consuming and error-prone. “Currently, many players in the autonomous vehicle field employ an… Read More »
Wired has a recent and very flattering profile of Brian Salesky, founder and CEO of Argo, Ford’s self-driving car venture. The piece has more information than I’ve read elsewhere about the early history of the Google Self-Driving Car Project, now known as Waymo. There’s also a good description about the friendship and rivalry between Salesky and… Read More »
Gatik, a Palo Alto start-up, made the news recently with autonomous box trucks focused on “middle mile” logistics. I confess I was previously unfamiliar with the term “middle mile”, which apparently refers to the fixed routes between centralized distribution centers and dispersed retail locations. The advantage, I take it, is that “middle mile” routes are… Read More »
Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, automaker Honda and T. Rowe Price & Associates, is laying off nearly 8% of its more than 1,800-member workforce today as it tries to reduce costs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The layoffs will affect employees in Cruise’s product, marketing and… Read More »