Waymo's Autonomous Leap: Safer Roads, Wider Reach
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Resources & Recommendations
Podcasts
- "Practical AI Episode 103" - Drago Anguelov's previous appearance on the podcast in September 2020, offering a historical context to the current discussion.
Companies
- Waymo - The company at the forefront of autonomous vehicle research and deployment, discussed extensively in the episode.
- Uber - Partnering with Waymo in Austin and Atlanta for ride-hailing services.
- Lyft - Partnering with Waymo in Nashville.
- DoorDash - Partnering with Waymo to explore delivery services.
- Swiss Re (Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd.) - An insurance company that has conducted studies validating Waymo's safety statistics.
- Google - Mentioned as the developer of the "Genie model."
Research & Studies
- Waymo Safety Study (at ~100 million autonomous miles) - This study demonstrated that Waymo vehicles are five times less likely to get into accidents with critical injuries and over 10 times less likely to injure pedestrians compared to human drivers.
- "Motion LLM" (Waymo) - A paper from two or three years prior discussing the idea of tokenizing motions to make them language-like, proving to be an effective modeling architecture for future interactions of agents.
- "Scaling Laws of Motion LLM Architectures" (Waymo) - A tech report on the scaling laws of LLM-like architectures in the context of autonomous driving.
- "Genie model" (Google) - A groundbreaking model that can generate controllable video, allowing real-time control of imagined worlds.
- "Emma" (Waymo) - A paper describing Waymo's attempt to fine-tune a vision-language model for driving tasks, highlighting its capabilities and limitations.
Websites & Online Resources
- Waymo.com/research - A resource for finding research papers and publications from Waymo.
- Waymo Open Dataset - A dataset made available by Waymo to support research in autonomous driving.