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xnxtoday at 6:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

Waymo has LIDAR and cameras, so it is better equipped for every situation.


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CSMastermindtoday at 10:58 PM

This seems tautological, but in practice, you might expect to see different results.

Engineering hours are finite, so if they're spread across interpreting signals from two different sources, they might not go deep enough to make either one as good as it could be.

Having your engineering resources more focused on a particular approach might actually yield better results.

I say this as someone who's dealing with LiDAR + vision vs pure vision in a different domain, and at this point, I actually think our pure vision systems are better.

lizardkingtoday at 6:54 PM

Unless the power is out

https://abc7news.com/post/san-francisco-leaders-press-waymo-...

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