Is there any possible future, where Waymo is NOT one of the major players in self driving software?
But my question was about being "one of the major players".
The market is huge. My rough guess is that every 10% of market share is worth $1T in market cap. Which is half of Google's overall current market cap.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-...
Isn't this a bit like ole' good Crassus in ancient Rome? Head of the government and richest buddy aroubnd? If history repeats, we'll see the American Imperial Era rising up very soon, were the interests of the state will fraction between the interests of the oligarchs and the lines blurry between law and personal convenience of the wealthist citizens
That's basically cyberpunk. And yes, we're pretty much heading towards megacorps.
Last I heard Waymo, they have to do every city, one at a time – and there are a lot of cities.
It just doesn't seem like a huge problem? If you have cars equipped with high resolution Lidar and cameras, mapping new routes seems like it ought to scale as the fleet is expanded.
This problem seems embarrassingly parallel.
The point is - you have a massive fleet of cars with all the right sensors to create a high resolution map.