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CRUISE is a joke. These guys can't find their own ass with 4 hands and a flashlight.

So much internal overlap and fragmentation that I would not be shocked they are hiring and firing at the same time - perhaps even the same people

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My impression was cruise was sort of the established players efforts to throw GOBS of money at a space they were worried about. Ie, a place that measures progress in part based on just expense.

Ie, waymo's tech is interesting but we have cruise so we are OK. Or tesla's tech looks interesting, but we have cruise.

I'd love to know what the kit they use for self driving costs. It looks monumentally expensive when you see one of their cars driving around.

I'm interested in MobileEye's next version of tech - wish they'd be pushing harder or did the Intel borg swallow them? They seemed to have a practical and pretty reasonably priced approach.

Waymo and Tesla have been designing a lot of their own hardware and I believe Cruise has been doing the same. Nvidia and Intel have been successful with getting start-ups into their ecosystem and attracted OEMS who want hardware for ADAS, but for FSD, you have to get the costs remarkably down, and that will need custom hardware without a middle man to pay. I doubt cruise is using anyones kit.

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