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Driverless: Waymo and the Robotaxi Race—Under the Hood

2024/12/15
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Danny Lewis
一名专注于技术和未来趋势的记者和播客主持人,目前工作于《华尔街_journal》。
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Megan Bruck
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Phil Koopman
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被总统-elect 特朗普任命为美国政府效率部门(DOGE)的领导人,致力于利用AI改进政府运营。
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@埃隆·马斯克 :特斯拉发布了首款无人驾驶原型车,但缺乏业务和汽车细节,导致投资者失望。特斯拉认为摄像头足以实现无人驾驶,不需要昂贵的激光雷达传感器,并使用端到端神经网络进行机器学习。 @Danny Lewis :Waymo的无人驾驶汽车已经在洛杉矶投入运营,提供付费乘车服务,其业务领先于特斯拉和其他竞争对手。Waymo与Uber合作,将服务扩展到更多城市。 @Fator Binder :构建值得信赖的人工智能需要赢得人们的信任,人工智能的目的是增强人类智能,而不是取代人类。 @Miles Kupa :特斯拉计划推出两种无人驾驶汽车,无人驾驶汽车行业存在关于是否需要激光雷达的分歧。Waymo与Uber的合作将扩大Waymo的市场覆盖面。 @Phil Koopman :端到端机器学习在处理罕见情况时存在安全隐患。无人驾驶汽车公司面临着扩大运营规模的压力,这可能会影响其安全性和发展速度。 @加州机动车辆管理局发言人 :特斯拉没有获得在没有驾驶员的情况下测试其无人驾驶汽车所需的加州州许可证。 @Megan Bruck :Waymo目前拥有无人驾驶汽车市场的主导地位,这将有助于其建立品牌忠诚度。Waymo的乘车费用比其他叫车服务贵,但随着使用率的增加,价格差距将会缩小。 @Sujata Kajarthi :Waymo每辆车的成本约为12.5万美元,可能需要十年时间才能实现收支平衡。Waymo可以通过将技术授权给其他汽车制造商来实现盈利。

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Waymo, the self-driving car startup owned by Google parent Alphabet, may be the front-runner in the race to lead the driverless car industry, but it’s got competition. Elon Musk’s Tesla and Amazon’s Zoox are also building out robotaxi technology and services to get riders in self-driving cars. On the second episode of our special series on the growing driverless car industry, host Danny Lewis looks at these companies’ efforts to catch up and where Waymo’s success could take it and its tech into the future.

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Further reading:

General Motors Scraps Cruise Robotaxi Program 

Musk Shows Off Driverless Robotaxi to Be Priced Under $30,000 

Waymo, Uber, Lyft Are Biggest Winners From Tesla’s Robotaxi Flop 

Elon Musk Plays a Familiar Song: Robot Cars Are Coming 

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