Carry On (autonomous) Cabby (2/2) - why Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is ready to slow down in order to get autonomous vehicles in the right lane
It’s coming up to a decade since Uber Technologies announced its first major push into autonomous vehicles (AV), announcing in 2016 a deal with Volvo to deliver self-driving cars, albeit ones with a human behind the wheel for safety.
Flash forward nine years and while the firm that disrupted the traditional hired taxi market has diversified operationally, the autonomous vehicle space remains a priority in the AI age, with CEO Dara Khosrowshahi staking a claim to differentiators from other contenders in the field:
What we're seeing as it relates to the development of AV models and physical AV in particular is that end-to-end models are replacing the heuristics approach, A bunch of these companies, including Waymo, Nuro, etc, they have been building AV for years and years, but it was based on heuristics. It was based on if-then kind of logical functions. That is quickly being replaced by end-to-end models...
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