Waymo CEO says camera-only self-driving systems can’t support fully autonomous driving systems, and after testing…
- Camera-only systems can only “approximately match” a human driver
- Multi-sensing setup offers more than just a failsafe
- Waymo co-CEO backs the use of Lidar and radar over camera-only systems
Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov has spoken out about the technology required to run a fully autonomous robotaxi service, addressing the subject of camera-only systems.
While he didn’t mention Tesla directly in his in-depth talk at Y Combinator’s Startup School, the presentation directly addressed vision-only camera setups, like those Elon Musk and Tesla have been pursuing.
“Humans, of course, can drive with just eyes, so there’s that proof of existence,” he said, according to Electrek.
“If the goal were to just approximately match human performance or to build an assist product, that’s a very reasonable way to go.”
But “weak sensing” inevitably leads to a safety curve that flattens out “way too early,” he added, highlighting the many cases where...
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