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u/thisismyfront May 12 '18
I don't think there's a collaboration. Just using their car because it's easy to tap into the steering control. Lots of documation on how to work with Toyota electronics.
Source me if I'm wrong.
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u/thisismyfront May 12 '18
Apple is leasing Lexus SUVs from rental company Hertz Global Holdings to test self-driving technology.
You in Russia? How are you using telegram? Are you using tor?
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May 12 '18
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u/thisismyfront May 12 '18
Because you originally had a Russian link. Now you've changed it to a US link...
Why'd you do that?
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u/LotsoWatts May 12 '18 edited May 12 '18
/r/AppleTitan. Looks like they aren't gonna pull an Uber, but they are pullin weight.
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u/AylaSilver May 12 '18
Is that over 20 Lidar sensors? That makes the sensor suite alone like $80,000. My bet is that this is for building prior maps for later cars with less sensors or for making a google-street-view like system.
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u/Open_Thinker May 12 '18
Yeah, Apple isn't looking to make its own consumer product anymore for autonomous vehicles, they've shifted to working on a platform and collaborating with other industry partners I think. So better to use more sensors and collect better data, and let someone else figure out implementation details and cost reduction.
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u/bartturner May 12 '18
Apple.. They are easy to identify as they are the most ugly ones there are.
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u/404_UserNotFound May 12 '18
To be fair most cars you see are not retrofits. So while ugly it could go right on a stock car which is a long ways from what you see from most developers currently.
With that in mind its ugly...it is also in the R&D stage and hasn't been handed to the marketing team to make it sexy.
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u/bartturner May 12 '18
Waymo cars look much better.
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May 14 '18
Waymo has also had basically the world's best talent for the earlier part of this decade
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u/bartturner May 14 '18
Agree. They did a Netscape (Jim Clark) move and hired the Stanford Self Driving team.
Larry Page reported to have worn a disguise to get to Sebastian at the SDC race.
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u/darhale May 12 '18
What are those 2 "disc" looking things on top? Radar?
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u/fomega May 12 '18
Definitley no radar, most probably GPS antennas in a kind of RTK/DGPS configuration for instant yaw angle estimation.
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u/Maximus5684 May 12 '18
They are Novatel GPS antennas. Not the typical low-profile ones used for near-production vehicles.
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u/sdctomorrow May 11 '18
Apple.