Ashlee Vance
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 18 Nov
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You know, so for people who don't know, DARPA, you know, put up this contest, put up a bunch of money to see what we could do with autonomous vehicles.
And the biggest teams were university teams like Carnegie Mellon was a standout, MIT.
Um, but in the very first event, well, I remember Anthony Lewandowski was there as like a maybe like a 22 year old, and he had he had a everybody else was doing
Massive trucks with like a little mini data center at the back, and he had a motorcycle.
Uh and then in the first race.
I can't remember how far it was, but hardly anybody went anywhere.
Um you know, like I think two or three teams went like a few miles and then and then they redid the race and everyone did
way better.
And some people completed like I think it was it was like on the order of like a hundred miles.
And so that's what I got excited.
And you sort of felt like, okay.
That leap happened really quickly.
And then I remember I
couple of years later I'm hanging out with George Hotz and he built his own self driving car in his garage in like a month and I was d driving on the freeway with him and it was working and and yeah, so you know, you have these little tastes and you think it's all gonna work.
Um, I think it makes a ton of sense that actually getting it on the roads um took this long 'cause it's it's so hard to do.
Although
Everyone says this, so it's not original.
Like we all take this for granted so quickly.
It is it is sort of like amazing to me how well they're working in Austin, in San Francisco.
Um where I've been.
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