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by Animats 3266 days ago
He managed to do 20% and spins it as 70% claiming he'll be at 100% before everybody else.

It worked for Cruise. Got them a billion dollars and a seat on GM's board.

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Hmm it seemed to me their product was way more advanced than commaai One product.
Cruise had lane following and smart cruise control, which everybody in the industry has and can be bought as an option on many high-end cars right now. They hyped this heavily and GM bought it.

That was surprising, because GM had a good self-driving effort with CMU, and had progressed to driving in Washington DC traffic autonomously.[1] That was way ahead of Cruise, and working in 2013. Then, somehow, GM totally blew it and lost that project, with the people going elsewhere.

[1] https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2013/september/sep...

Not only high-end cars.

Every Toyota comes equipped with lane following and smart cruise control. They call it Toyota Safety Sense, and even the lowest priced, $18k Corolla has it.

Hmm indeed the fluff was deep then