Zoox Pseudo Bankruptcy — Industry’s Self-induced Demise Picks Up Speed
Amazon to acquire autonomous driving startup Zoox
This is effectively a bankruptcy. Just like when Apple bought Drive.AI
The industry demise is picking up speed
Zoox was not the most major of players — but was close. Having said that, Volvo just teamed up with Waymo when they already had a relationship with Uber ATG
Did Amazon get $1B in value? Depends on the patents for the vehicle and software as well as if they, unlike the rest of the industry, switch most public shadow and safety driving over to proper simulation (DoD/aerospace based not gaming based). If they don’t do this and they want to get to L4 in the public domain, they will fail as well.
More details on all of this and how to avoid it below
Autonomous Vehicle Industry’s Self-Inflicted and Avoidable Collapse — Ongoing Update
https://medium.com/@imispgh/i-predicted-this-a-year-and-a-half-ago-1b47bf098b03
The Autonomous Vehicle Industry can be Saved by doing the Opposite of what is being done now
Proposal for Successfully Creating an Autonomous Ground or Air Vehicle
Simulation can create a Complete Digital Twin of the Real World if DoD/Aerospace Technology is used
Simulation Photorealism is almost Irrelevant for Autonomous Vehicle Development and Testing
Proposal for Successfully Creating an Autonomous Ground or Air Vehicle
Autonomous Vehicles Need to Have Accidents to Develop this Technology
Using the Real World is better than Proper Simulation for AV Development — NONSENSE
The Hype of Geofencing for Autonomous Vehicles
My name is Michael DeKort — I am a former system engineer, engineering and program manager for Lockheed Martin. I worked in aircraft simulation, the software engineering manager for all of NORAD, the Aegis Weapon System, and on C4ISR for DHS.
Key Industry Participation
- Founder SAE On-Road Autonomous Driving Simulation Task Force
- Member SAE ORAD Verification and Validation Task Force
- Stakeholder for UL4600 — Creating AV Safety Guidelines
- Member of the IEEE Artificial Intelligence & Autonomous Systems Policy Committee (AI&ASPC)
- Presented the IEEE Barus Ethics Award for Post 9/11 Efforts
My company is Dactle
We are building an aerospace/DoD/FAA level D, full L4/5 simulation-based testing and AI system with an end-state scenario matrix to address several of the critical issues in the AV/OEM industry I mentioned in my articles below. This includes replacing 99.9% of public shadow and safety driving. As well as dealing with significant real-time, model fidelity and loading/scaling issues caused by using gaming engines and other architectures. (Issues Unity will confirm. We are now working together. We are also working with UAV companies). If not remedied these issues will lead to false confidence and performance differences between what the Plan believes will happen and what actually happens. If someone would like to see a demo or discuss this further please let me know.
