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Published · transcript-backedDmitri Dolgov: recommendation
24 Mar 2026 Cheeky Pint The 20-year journey to fully autonomous cars with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo
“If you left an item there, maybe your phone, we want to detect that, and then send it to our listening phone and let you know. That we do by asking a model that actually lives off-board as opposed to having to put it on the car because it's not a real-time task related to the driving.”
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- Dmitri Dolgov
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- recommendation
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- 24 Mar 2026
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- Cheeky Pint
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…Got it. What's an example of a nice-to-have that happens in the cloud? You can imagine a situation where we do… Some of it is not directly related to the task of driving, but let's say after you leave the car, we want to check that the car is not dirty. You didn't leave anything there. If you did leave an item, well, if you left it a mess, then we want to send the car to one of our depots, get it cleaned up. If you left an item there, maybe your phone, we want to detect that, and then send it to our listening phone and let you know. That we do by asking a model that actually lives off-board as opposed to having to put it on the car because it's not a real-time task related to the driving. That's one example of something that— There are all these debates that go on on Twitter around self-driving. I can think of end-to the end versus the more modular approach. There's cameras only versus array of sensors. I can't tell, are these debates actually interesting to an expert in the field, or do you think these are just settled matters, and they're just grist for the algorithm?…
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