I’ve been developing software for self driving (both road and offroad) the past two years and what I’ve noticed is that there isn’t much innovation in the field. It seems like everyone follows the exact same design paradigm which is using something like Autoware. It’s pretty disheartening to see how much money has been poured into this field and what do we have out of it now? GM Supercruise came out in like 2013 [0] with similar performance to the level of autonomy we’re at in 2020. To clarify, this was in a production cadillac in 2013, so anyone who knows about automotive products knows how long this must have been in development before they were allowed to put it in production.
To the author, it’s interesting to read how quick you rose and fell, but it’s good you got out now instead of holding on for years and years.
What do you think is next?
I’m honestly tired of the lack of progress in self driving, and was wondering what anyone’s thoughts were on home robotics. I feel like that’s the next big thing that VC’s will pour billions into.
I think a big issue is where the average programmer begins his journey. If you start with visual studio and all you have to do is click “build” or “run” and all the magic occurs in the back, of course you’ll be lost later on. If you start with C and have to write Makefiles or compile simple programs on the command line, you’ll learn much more and probably won’t run into this later. It’s tough to understand what’s going on when so much is happening behind the scenes.
To the author, it’s interesting to read how quick you rose and fell, but it’s good you got out now instead of holding on for years and years.
What do you think is next?
I’m honestly tired of the lack of progress in self driving, and was wondering what anyone’s thoughts were on home robotics. I feel like that’s the next big thing that VC’s will pour billions into.
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