The Flying Car from Chinese Electric Vehicle Maker Xpeng
(T) There have been many Silicon Valley companies Joby Aviation, Kitty Hawk, Wisk, and Archer which have been working on flying cars for a few years now. Today, Xpeng, Tesla’s […]
Tesla AI Day 2021
(T) Tesla had this week a recruiting event for data scientists and software engineers: “Tesla AI Day”. In my opinion, Andrej Karpathy and his team during that event have shown […]
Energy Observer Leaving San Francisco This Week-End!
(E) Energy Observer, a 100-foot catamaran, is the first vessel that both generates and is powered by hydrogen. The boat started its seven-year voyage from Saint-Malo, France, in 2017, and […]
Machine Learning Models for Autonomous Vehicles
(T) Waymo’s principal scientist Drago Anguelov recently highlighted the latest innovations of Waymo’s machine learning models for its autonomous vehicles at CVPR 2020. In a previous blog article, Waymo (ChauffeurNet) […]
Waymo (ChauffeurNet) versus Telsa (HydraNet)
(T) Following are some easy to understand summaries of how Waymo and Telsa are approaching the design, architectures, and modeling of their self-driving cars. Note how much they differ. Waymo […]
Waymo ChauffeurNet
(T) I had the opportunity to attend at the ODSC West conference, a talk from Waymo’s engineering manager’s Chen Wu. Following is a summary of what I learned about the […]
From Autonomous to Flying
(T) This week Uber had its Elevate Summit conference to announce its vision for “urban air mobility”. This week also, Silicon Valley startup Kitty Hawk, partly funded by Google Larry […]
Autonomous Cars: AI Killer App?
(T) In Silicon Valley, you learned more by meeting people in an informal setting, than through business meetings and conferences. A friend of mine invited me yesterday to a party. […]
The Hyperloop Vehicle Capsules Accelerated by a Linear Electric Motor up to 760 mph in Solar Powered Tubes
(T) Imagine that you could attend a lecture at UCLA in the morning, and at Stanford in the afternoon; or the same day that you finish coding a game in […]
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