This week, launched fully driverless cars on the streets of San Francisco.
Yesterday at an event called Under the Hood, we shared just how we did it.
Here are just a few of my favorite details 🧵
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When driving in a busy city, your driving decisions have a significant impact on other drivers, and ultimately your own comfort.
Our AV takes this to the next level with something we call 360° Interaction Resolution, ensuring riders and drivers enjoy being around a AV.
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We simulate 17 years(!) of driving every single day.
To make the most of this insane amount of simulated driving, we built NPC AI.
NPC AI transforms rudimentary simulation agents into intelligent, human-like vehicles and pedestrians. Our AV is far more resilient because of it.
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Each month—to deliver an ever improving AV— uses almost 800 years(!) of cloud compute.
Our self-driving technology is fueled by incredible amounts of data and computation. How we wield this data is a huge advantage.
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The Origin—our purpose-built, all-electric AV—is uniquely positioned to serve ridehail and delivery customers. Not just one, but both.
Here’s a look at our custom delivery locker, that can transform a ridehail Origin into a delivery Origin in less than 5 minutes.
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A AV provides a superior ridehail experience, and we’re sweating the small details to make it even better.
For example, we’ve all left something behind in an Uber or Lyft, and then struggled like hell to get it back. We’re making it easy, stress-free, and automated!
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Great products are made up of thousands of little details, and our self-driving product is no different.
You’ve seen just a few of those details above, but check-out the entire event to see the many, many others. Enjoy!
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Lastly, I am so fortunate to work with incredibly passionate and talented colleagues, a few of whom you’ve now met above.
You should join us, and I’m certain you’ll feel the same.
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Congrats! Seeing the logic of how the cars deal with choke points and ambiguity gives me a lot of confidence! Are they doing highway driving yet?
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Not yet. We’re very focused on inner city driving.
That said, we are testing higher speed driving in Phoenix!
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