Cruise, a self-driving car company, writes about autonomous vehicle engineering, HD maps, security, and Kubernetes tooling.
Commenters cite its posts on HD maps and simulation as open technical material, and compare its blog activity with Waymo's.
This person just has no idea how AVs work and thinks an openly shared approach to AVs is a conspiracy
https://medium.com/cruise/hd-maps-self-driving-cars-b6444720021c
https://blog.waymo.com/2019/09/building-maps-for-self-driving-car.html
https://zoox.com/journal/putting-our-robots-on-the-map/
When you're ignorant on a topic, it's not surprising that every fact you come across might end up being misconstrued as discovering some well-hidden secret.
Waymo blog talking about change detection and automated information sharing — https://blog.waymo.com/2020/09/the-waymo-driver-handbook-mapping.html
Waymo patent portfolio related to mapping — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uf-5cimWzA
Cruise blog about detecting and rolling out map changes "in minutes" — https://medium.com/cruise/hd-maps-self-driving-cars-b6444720021c
There are some indirect references to price in here: https://medium.com/cruise/the-cruise-origin-story-b6e9ad4b47e5 I don't know why they give both the manufacturing cost ("half the cost of what a conventional electric SUV costs") and the cost to the customer ("on average, see up to $5,000 back in their pocket every year").
Re "CA DMV's autonomous vehicle accident reports for 2019.[1] Cruise has a lot of them." Cruise has just put up a post dismissing the disengagement metric. It seems to me they're on a PR campaign to keep funding coming.
https://medium.com/cruise/the-disengagement-myth-1b5cbdf8e239
Incredible tech from the videos through the technology page and the medium post :O
Their UI looks incredibly sexy
https://medium.com/cruise/the-disengagement-myth-1b5cbdf8e239
Also the quality of their simulator, I've never seen anything like this in production.
Thanks. I'm surprised how little activity there is on their blog, just 7 posts in the last year and none of any technical depth. Even Cruise has made some posts (https://medium.com/cruise/cruise-simulation-sensor-development-be57a5991fe6).