History of Cruise Self Driving Cars 

Glad you enjoyed that. Storytelling is my big focus for 2022. I feel like it can be a big differentiator for the channel.

@@JohnCooganPlus very nice approach, couldn’t agree more, looking forward 2022 and seeing your channel boom!

@@JohnCooganPlus do you know how a young-cooch looks like? F*kkn pastrami mate. F*kkn messy, American pastrami.

Maybe one day! Went from 100 subs to 27k subs in a single year!

It is but a lot of the stuff is pretty captain obvious lol.

@@DannyBoy443 yeah realistically you can just read the Wikipedia pages or an article or two about most of these founders, it's just an easy way to consume the info for people who wouldn't have searched it up.

​​@@JohnCooganPlus Your channel is really underrated. You're meant to have hit a million subs by now. Keep up the good work.

I appreciate that! Glad you liked this video! Will try and keep improving the quality throughout this year!

That’s been my experience 100%.

Love hearing that! Thanks so much for taking the time to comment!

Great to hear that! Always trying to deliver some real value and entertainment instead of wasting time.

I'm surprised that this channel doesn't have so many subscribers for **this** level of quality.

Thanks a lot! I’m excited for where the channel is headed. We went from 100 subs to 27k last year! No idea where we’ll be by the end of the year, but it should be a fun journey.

100%

I've noticed the dramatic music creates more of an adrenalin experience, which probably divides people. In my case I love the content, but I don't necessarily like an adrenalin experience while watching infotainment. That's probably what's preventing me from subscribing. Maybe something to think about, but you obviously know what you're doing.

Thanks a lot!

Great question! I should probably do a video about the different models because I think Comma AI is also an important player in the space. The Tesla vs Cruise strategy debate is interesting, but only really matters if you assume that the market will be winner take all. I’m not so sure that there will only be one winner here. To be clear, the Tesla model probably fits more of the traditional models around entrepreneurial approaches to solving a big problem like this, but that really just wasn’t an option for Cruise. The barriers to starting an entirely new car company are so high and I genuinely don’t think going with the “we’ll build a consumer car first” would get you to market any faster. Just look at Rivian, which is older than Cruise and still hasn’t shipped significant numbers of cars. The other thing that makes me bullish on Cruise is the fact that their service is available for employees already. It’s not quite the same as everyday users who aren’t under NDA and might tweet if something goes wrong, but you’re still going to get good feedback if your software engineer shows up rattled because they had a near death experience on the way to work. I honestly find it hard to pick a side here because I’m just so excited about the competition. The last thing I want is a monopoly here. I want to be able to look up recent safety data before I pick a brand and I want all the major players to know that consumers will shift if they slip up on safety. Zero brand loyalty when it comes to safety imo. Still thinking about this space though, no strongly held opinions yet.

@@JohnCooganPlus thank you. Good points about Cruise and their options. The dynamics of AI competition (one or many winners) is really interesting, and perhaps warrants a video as well. Many have been afraid that it would have strong winner takes all dynamics as winners get access to more data and therefore win more. It doesn't seem to me that this is the case, at least not yet. Most AI in the wild today serve a supporting role adding value, but without being critical to the product. AI for things like recommendations, improving customer support and small optimizations might be be very different from markets where AI is critical like self driving cars. I can't think of any mature fields or companies where AI is a critical component, but it is also hard to know where to draw the line. Palantir seems to be an AI critical company with very little competition. it will be very interesting to follow the self driving field and see how it evolves.

Thanks 👍

Love hearing that. Glad the story landed.

Everything is stock music from epidemic sound and Artlist!

Appreciated!

Wow, high praise! Thanks a lot!

Yeah, I think that's the goal of the partnership. Cruise gets to manufacture driverless taxis at GM plants, while GM can start integrating Cruise self-driving tech into other vehicles.

he worked on the whole curriculum, so this is probably a good place to start: www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-self-driving-cars--nd113

Find an online community of likeminded individuals! Maybe a discord or group of twitter friends.

Thanks! You always have good advice!

Definitely planning on doing a deeper dive into Tesla FSD. Hopefully around the time that they do their next AI Day. Always some really interesting content there. I made a video covering the last AI day, you might like it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QX4bHSVFrEs.html

@@JohnCooganPlus Sure thing. But man! Are you taking the storytelling game to the moon 🚀. Have binged through them all & can't wait for more start-up success stories on the channels. Keep up the brilliant work ⚡

Thanks a lot!

So awesome to see comments from you after so many months in a row!

Definitely not. Huge need for auto-labeling and manual labeling. You just can't do all of the data with a single strategy. Cruise (and every other AV company) definitely still use manual labeling, they might even be a Scale client.

@@JohnCooganPlus great point , but comma ai is using completely end to end approach without data labelling , what's your view on that ?

Huge comma ai fan. I think George Hotz is building a great product and just might create the Android of self-driving.