Apple reveals plans for self driving car

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28 points·pbowyer··7 comments

That's convenient. So Telsa with its head start should share the terabytes of proprietary data it's getting so that Apple, which is notoriously secretive and protective of it's own assets, isn't left behind.

Don't forget Google, who arguably predates even Tesla. They might not be selling cars, but they are certainly sitting on terabytes of great data from their 10(+?) years of tests.

But yeah, this is typical Apple: enter a market someone else spearheaded, getting the best of others' experience, to then claim they invented it all.

Actually, I recall reading a few months ago that Tesla has now accumulated so much driving data that Google's is a drop in the bucket in comparison... Tesla has their customers putting in road time, Google has a few employees. On phone, so no source.

Google has also been paying people to drive StreetView vans around the world for 10 years. Don't know how much driving data comes back from that though.

Searching "Tesla road data" on Google turns up numerous sources. The most recent one that I'm seeing (dated November 13, 2016) claims that Tesla has 1.3 billion miles worth of autopilot data.

https://electrek.co/2016/11/13/tesla-autopilot-billion-miles...

> “Companies should share de-identified scenario and dynamics data from crashes and near-misses,”

That's a limited request for information sharing, and in line with how NTSB handles airplane incident today.

Friendly tip for people who don't have a subscription: you can click the 'web' link which will take you to a Google search, then you can simply go through there.

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