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> We also saw that investors really didn’t like the business model of being the operator, and that our heavy investment into safety didn’t translate for investors.

This is what Stefan said here [0]. Honestly I hear contradicting reasons for the failure. It could be that their investors had a different risk tolerance than Waymo/Uber's.

I guess I'm confused, sure, teleop could cover a lot of the edge cases but if there is a fat long tail you still end up with a pretty unsafe technology. The deer example is kind of a distraction and goes to show that maybe Starsky had a problem imagining and classifying catastrophic failure events. For every deer jumping in front of the vehicle there is a 10x more serious scenario that could lead to human fatalities.

After reading his posts I'm still confused about the reasons they failed. Can you list the reasons from high priority to low as to why they failed?

[0] https://medium.com/starsky-robotics-blog/the-end-of-starsky-...