John Collison

So it has a number of sensors that are positioned around the vehicle.

We use three different sensing modalities.

There's cameras, there's lighters or lasers, and there are radars.

You know, those are the primary ones.

There are also microphones, directional microphone arrays.

But those are the primary three for sensing the world.

They all have very nicely complementary physical properties.

They all have 360 degree coverage around the vehicle.

So the Waymo driver sees kind of 360, you know, all the time.

So all of the data goes into a computer, you would expect.

And they're the software that process, now it's, you know, all AI.

I can see a specialized AI in the physical world.

So it processes the sensor data.

Nowadays, you know, talk about it in the,

using AI terminology as encoders that take this data in.

And then there's the decoder, the action, the generative part, if you will, in the car.

And the generative task there is to figure out how to drive.

And that is, of course, connected through a specialized interface to the car where we can actuate the vehicle.

And that's why you see the steering wheel turn and it drives you around.

Nothing real time.