Some startups lose billions working on expensive, complex self-driving systems; Ghost Autonomy is keeping it simple hoping to appear in a car near you.
come in all shapes and sizes. From Waymo's tiny pods to TuSimple's autonomous semi-trucks, the spectrum of vehicles is broad. However, those machines tend to have one thing in common: sensors sticking out every which way in an effort to provide them with the power of human perception.
"We believe what emerged from that was a little bit of groupthink," said Kixmoeller, of DARPA's deeply ingrained focus on robotics that may or may not be a limiting factor in where we are today in autonomous vehicle development. The problem, according to the people we spoke with at Ghost, is that the field of robotics is usually one of controlled environments.
The brain controlling the car then makes decisions based on the fundamental characteristics of the obstacle—its size, position, and movement, for example—all without having to identify exactly what it is. And that's it. It's such a simple design that the initial idea for Ghost was to create retrofit kits that could make any car autonomous. However, given the challenges of interconnecting with disparate vehicle setups, Ghost is now exclusively planning on partnering with manufacturers as an option built into new cars. That means meeting the levels of safety and reliability OEMs expect.
That seems quite expensive at first blush, and to be clear, no prices are set in stone , but if you look atfor the still not fully functional Full Self-Driving package , that cost isn't entirely unprecedented.
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