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Waymo, the Alphabet self-driving car company that was spun out of Google, is picking up speed. The company’s autonomous vehicles just drove 8 million miles on public roads. What’s more, it took the company just one month to go from 7 million miles to 8 million miles driven. Via Philippe J DEWOST
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Waymo, the Alphabet self-driving car company that was spun out of Google, is picking up speed. The company’s autonomous vehicles just drove 8 million miles on public roads. What’s more, it took the company just one month to go from 7 million miles to 8 million miles driven. “We’re driving now at the rate of 25,000 miles every day on public roads,” CEO John Krafcik said Friday while addressing the National Governors Association. Waymo’s acceleration in logging miles with self-driving cars has picked up in the last year. In November 2017, it crossed 4 million miles. Less than a year later it’s doubled that figure. Most of the miles are being driven in the Phoenix area where the company has been developing and testing an autonomous ride-share service using modified Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans. The company plans to launch that ride-share service to the public later this year in Arizona. Krafcik’s vision for the company is to partner with automakers, cargo operators and public transportation companies so they incorporate Waymo’s technology. Unlike automakers such as General Motors that are developing their own self-driving systems, Waymo has no plans to build its own vehicles. Instead, Waymo is looking to build “drivers,” systems that can safely steer vehicles without requiring a human to sit behind the steering wheel. “As we scale our business and have hundreds and thousands of Waymo drivers on the road, each one of those drivers is going to be exactly the same,” said Krafcik. “It’s going to be the world’s most experienced driver.” 
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pe “‘Masters are forbidden to poach workers from other members of the craft.' - British medieval ordinances of Bristol cobblers in 1364’” — This week, as the final summary judgement for the resulting class action suit looms, and companies mentioned (Intuit, Pixar and Lucasfilm) scramble to settle out of court....court documents show shocking evidence of a much larger conspiracy, reaching far beyond Silicon Valley.
Confidential internal Google and Apple memos...clearly show that what began as a secret cartel agreement between Apple’s Steve Jobs and Google’s Eric Schmidt to illegally fix the labor market for hi-tech workers, expanded within a few years to include companies ranging from Dell, IBM, eBay and Microsoft, to Comcast, Clear Channel, Dreamworks, and London-based public relations behemoth WPP. According to multiple so Via Deb Nystrom, REVELN
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Sad but true.. And people wonder why so many leave the high tech corporate world to do start-ups and go it alone rather than be a slave. This article convinced me that Steve Jobs was never a good manager, while I could over look some of idiosyncrasies, and still other failings to emotional immaturity Steve in effect became the very thing he hated in other's, a corporate slaver.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's curator insight,
April 8, 2014 12:25 PM
This is sobering, especially with Google's "Don't be evil" informal corporate motto. What nefarious dealings ARE THESE to keep the IT folks down, while large profits are enjoyed by executives? |
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Google ATAP (that's Advanced Technology and Projects) is where wonderful things are born. Things like the animated magic of Glen Keane's Duet or the modular Project Ara smartphone. It's all great stuff, but it's also all experimental—if a project doesn't make enough progress in two years, it's dead. But Google's Project Tango is alive and well: it just graduated from ATAP. Via THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY, TechinBiz
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Project Tango started as an experimental smartphone concept that used a powerful chipset and some advanced cameras to capture over a quarter million 3D measurements every second. Basically, it was a 3D scanner that lived in your pocket, and developers have been using it to create immersive augmented reality headsets, help customers find stuff on crowded store shelves and even turn create an alternate, snowed-in reality in a few Target stores. It's like that crazy Intel RealSense camera in that new Dell tablet,
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Interesting : it looks like Waymo's law it outpacing Moore's law. More interesting, they now log 25.000 miles per day. And even more interesting, they now say "We are driving..."
“We’re driving now at the rate of 25,000 miles every day on public roads” — We stands for "our Way enabled car fleet" ...