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Drago Anguelov: Waymo and Autonomous Vehicles

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Waymo's Approach to the Self Driving Problem

In a previous conversation I had with Stuart Russell he commented that waymo's initial approach to the self driving problem was, and I'm quoting him, even more old fashioned AI than he would have recommended. And this speaks to the kind of suite of methods people have tried to use to start tackling problems such as generalization difficulty. So I want to start digging into some of the approaches that Waymo has taken to tackling different parts of the stack. How you've seen their approach evolve since they started in 2009? You know what years he was referring to just. If you happen to know about what some of those early approaches look like. Yeah, and a unique set of problems for generalization

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