Robocars Wiki

advanced_autopilot

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-27T23:48:53-0400

Advanced Autopilot These teams are working on advanced “driver assist” systems which do adaptive cruise control, lane keeping and sometimes more. * Tesla - current Autopilot (with a capital “A”) * comma.ai - open source car modifying tool * AIMotive * Pronto.ai - for trucks.

autopilot

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-05T18:50:05-0400

Autopilot Autopilot is Tesla's high level driver assist system, and is not a robocar system. Nonetheless, it receives a lot of attention both because many people, in spite of Tesla's declarations to the contrary view it as some form of self-driving system. It is, at its core, a combination of

brad_templeton

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-04T03:30:29-0400

Brad Templeton I'm Brad Templeton and I'm the publisher of this Wiki and the associated robocars.com and ideas.4brad.com sites. I also publish on Forbes.com and other sites. I have worked at Waymo in its early years and have been an advisor to Quanergy and informally to Zoox, Cruise, Nuro, Auro, Otto and several others. Currently I am an advisor to

delivery

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-07-24T13:46:09-0400

Delivery Teams with focus on the last mile -- sidewalk and road. * Starship * Nuro * Marble * Serve -- from Postmates * Scout -- from Amazon.com * Udelv * Kiwi Campus * Robby * Eliport * Yape * Twinswheel * Teleretail * Lumo * JD * Gita * Robomart * Refraction -- tricycle robot from UMichigan alumni * Boxbot -- founded by alumni of Tesla and Uber

drive.ai

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-06T19:48:42-0400

Drive.ai Drive.ai is a Mountain View based company developing fully autonomous vehicles. It is rumoured it has been acquired for staff by Apple. Key People * Brody Huval * Carol Reiley * Fred Rosenzweig * Jeffrey Kiske CEO * Joel Pazhayampallil

editing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-05T19:08:11-0400

Robocars Wiki Editing Guide To prevent spam and assure quality, editors must have accounts. To get one, first go to the Robocars Blog User Registration and create an account, then wait for me to give it Wiki editing privileges. You don't need to read or use the blog, but if you do comment on it, being logged in gives you an authenticated name and the ability to edit your comments.

embark

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-06T00:07:45-0400

Embark Embark is a San Francisco based company developing fully autonomous trucks. Key People * Alex Rodrigues CEO and co-founder * Brandon Moak co-founder Vehicle Image/Video Sensors & Hardware Key Facts * Founded: August 2016 * Budget/Funding: $47.1mio * Team size: 35 (as of July 19th, 2018)

gatik

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-06T17:53:11-0400

Gatik AI A Delivery Van company with a focus on grocery deliveries. Deal with Walmart . Summary Gatik AI on Crunchbase Vehicle Photo Sensors & Hardware History and Events Key People Gautam Narang Lior Ron Key Facts * Team Size: ? (as of ?) * Vehicles in Test: ? (as of ?) * Budget/Funding: $4.5M (as of June 2019)

glossary

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-30T03:09:08-0400

Glossary Terms for the core technology * Robocar -- the preferred term here for a self-driving vehicle, capable of driving without human supervision. * Self-driving car -- another popular term for the above. * Autonomous Vehicle -- another common term.

hardware

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-27T23:20:10-0400

Hardware A variety of non-sensor hardware is involved in robocars. Processing * Nvidia GPUs and Drive boards * Tesla FSD Computer * Google TPU * Intel (apart from MobilEye * AMD Communications Robocars currently do not use communications beyond the cellular network, and they may never do so, but some companies hope to supply this if people decide to use it.

investors

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-03T23:11:57-0400

Investors * Alphabet * Softbank * Maniv Mobility * Andreesen Horowitz * Khosla Ventures * Woodside Capital * Sequoia Capital

levels

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-30T03:18:41-0400

SAE/NHTSA Levels In the earliest days of regulatory effort, NHTSA defined 4 “levels” for self-driving vehicles, plus a “level 0” to refer to classic manually driven vehicles. Later, the SAE expanded this to 5 levels by splitting the 4th level into two forms. Initially the levels were presented as that

mario_herger

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-04T00:20:11-0400

I am Mario, author of the book and blog The last driver's license holder ... has already been born.

neolix

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-28T14:46:21-0400

Neolix Delivery van company in China, claims to have JD and Huawei as customers for $30K vans Summary Vehicle Photo Sensors & Hardware History and Events Key People Key Facts * Team Size: ? (as of ?) * Vehicles in Test: ? (as of ?) * Budget/Funding: $? (as of ?)

notfound

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-03T00:38:57-0400

This topic does not exist yet But it could. This Wiki does not allow open editing, but you can get an editing account. First go to the Robocars Blog User Registration and create an account, then wait for Brad Templeton to give it Wiki editing privileges. You don't need to read or use the blog, but if you do comment on it, being logged in gives you an authenticated name and the ability to edit your comments.

places_laws

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-03T23:07:18-0400

Places and Laws These pages document the situation in various countries and regions, including laws and agencies, the political climate and special notes about the business climate

resources

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-04T03:51:45-0400

Resources From the Producers Brad Templeton * Robocars.com -- main site on Robocars * Robocars Blog -- Robocars sub-topic on the Brad Ideas Blog * Brad Templeton site on Forbes.com * Brad Ideas -- full blog. * Brad Templeton Home Page Mario Herger Discussion Sites * Self Driving Car sub-Reddit * LinkedIn Group on self-driving cars Books Other Blogs and Sites * Wired Magazine Transportation * Forbes.com Transporation * "The Information" Autonomous section Paywall news…

sensors

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-11-03T12:29:10-0400

Sensors LIDAR * Velodyne Industry-starter and leader for over a decade * Quanergy First company building solid-state sensors * Waymo LIDAR from Waymo (Uses on own cars, sells Laser Bear Honeycomb only to non-robotaxi customers) * AEye-- 1550nm, formerly US LADAR. * Aeva -- FMCW from ex-Apple founders

services

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-28T22:24:01-0400

Services Training * Deepen.AI -- Labeling and segmentation tools and services * Scale -- Labeling Maps * Here * TomTom * DeepMaps * CivlMaps Fleet Operations * RideOS

sidebar

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-03T23:08:18-0400

General Information: * Site Intro * Resources * Glossary * Editing * Brad Templeton * Robocars.com * Robocars Blog * The Last Driver License Holder Sections: * Teams * Delivery * Sensors * Hardware * Services * Places & Laws * Tools * Testing * Investors

site_intro

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-03T22:52:10-0400

Robocars Wiki Intro This wiki exists as a resource for everything about self-driving cars (along with trucks and delivery robots) with information about the teams, projects, cars, companies, technologies, laws, services, software and people of this world-changing industry.

start

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-29T18:56:29-0400

Robocars.com Wiki A resource on everything related to self-driving vehicles Currently Under Construction

teams

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-09T15:59:43-0400

Full-stack Teams and Cars All these teams are attempting to build the “full stack” of a robocar or other autonomous outdoor vehicle. They may also be building some hardware components, or in a few cases, plan to build or have custom manufactured the vehicle.

tesla_fsd

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-05T18:59:08-0400

Tesla Full Self Driving Tesla has, for several years, allowed customers to purchase a “Full Self Driving” (FSD) option on their cars. The price has ranged from $5,000 to $7,000 over the price of Autopilot, with some occasional price reductions. Customers who purchase this option do not receive full self driving, but rather they receive the promise that once that product is ready, they will get it without extra charge. In 2019, customers also received a few enhanced Autopilot functions, and …

testing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-27T23:29:03-0400

Simulation & Testing * Apollo from Baidu * CARLA * Constellation from Nvidia * TNO/Tass in the Netherlands with Vehicle-in-loop * Metamoto * Applied Intuition * Cognata * AIMotive

tools

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-30T22:25:54-0400

Tools

uber_fatality

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-04T00:33:45-0400

Robocar Fatality At present, the only fatality from a self-driving car project is the Death of Elaine Herzberg. She was struck by an Uber test vehicle in Tempe, Arizona on March 18, 2018.

waymo

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-27T20:14:44-0400

Waymo / Google Chauffeur Begun as Google Chauffeur, now spun out as Waymo, this was the first and is still almost universally viewd as the preeminent team in the field. They operate the limitd Waymo One service in the Phoenix area with live customers. Summary Chauffeur was formed at Google by Larry Page, from winners of the