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I'll admit I was pretty surprised at the speed that Cruise seemed to come out of nowhere and start doing pretty impressive demos. I guess it shouldn't be a surprise that corners were cut somewhere.

Can you give an example of the sort of special cases you're talking about so we can get a sense for what it's like?

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Imagine predicting pedestrian behavior with if/else and numeric thresholds (distance to curb less than 1.25 meters?) instead of a principled model trained on data.

Waymo uses sophisticated predictive models trained on vast amounts of data. Cruise slaps together piles of guesses and (frankly) bullshit.

this is not how any of this works, dear mr early employee.

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