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Kartik Tiwari
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Jan 9

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (AI)Bomb

My opinion on the subject of AI safety has to-and-fro’d from “not a concern” to “we are headed to our doom” to finally “it probably won’t be as bad”. Let me explain. The risks with AI can be bucketed into three major categories: Problems with intended use case or Misuse…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Jan 10, 2022

Driving complexity and speed: The puzzle-piece synchronicity between human supervision and autonomy

One difficult thing about autonomy is that it’s a compounding problem. It’s difficult to solve the first 90 per cent of driving, and it’s just as difficult again to solve the next nine per cent, and as difficult again to solve the next 0.9 per cent, and so on. Each…

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Driving complexity and speed: The puzzle-piece synchronicity between human supervision and autonomy
Driving complexity and speed: The puzzle-piece synchronicity between human supervision and autonomy

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Mar 30, 2020

Startup lessons from successes and failures at Starsky Robotics

While having a conversation about politics, a friend of mine noted “Contrary to popular belief, politicians are’t dumb. They are just really good at counting votes”. After that, whenever I considered a group of individuals taking decision I would not consider smart, I knew that I had to dig deeper…

Autonomous Cars

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Startup lessons from successes and failures at Starsky Robotics
Startup lessons from successes and failures at Starsky Robotics
Autonomous Cars

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Mar 15, 2020

To Make Self-Driving a Reality, Dispense With the Safety Debt

By Kartik Tiwari For the last four years, I have been leading the work to make the dream of driverless technology a reality at Starsky. In this blog post, I have tried to condense my learnings about autonomous vehicles, the industry, and its biggest blindspot : Safety. It has been…

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To Make Self-Driving a Reality, Dispense With the Safety Debt
To Make Self-Driving a Reality, Dispense With the Safety Debt

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Published in Starsky Robotics 10–4 Labs

·May 17, 2019

Simulation Testing’s Uncanny Valley Problem

Testing against one’s own assumptions creates security theater. No one wants to be hurt because they’re inadvertently driving next to an unproven self-driving vehicle. However, the costs of validating self-driving vehicles on real roads are extraordinary. To mitigate this, most autonomous developers test their systems in simulation, that is, in virtual environments. Starsky uses limited low-fidelity simulation to…

Self Driving Cars

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Simulation Testing’s Uncanny Valley Problem
Simulation Testing’s Uncanny Valley Problem
Self Driving Cars

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Published in Starsky Robotics 10–4 Labs

·Feb 25, 2019

Why Deep Learning Is Not A Silver Bullet For Autonomous Vehicles

If you’re an engineer in the self-driving space, you frequently get asked variations of the same question. “Why is it taking so long?” one might say. “Wasn’t I supposed to be able to take a ride in a robo-taxi by now? I get it. Last year, Waymo’s vehicles hit ten…

Self Driving Cars

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Why Deep Learning Is Not A Silver Bullet For Autonomous Vehicles
Why Deep Learning Is Not A Silver Bullet For Autonomous Vehicles
Self Driving Cars

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Published in Towards Data Science

·Feb 23, 2019

Why Deep Learning Is Not A Silver Bullet For Autonomous Vehicles

If you’re an engineer in the self-driving space, you frequently get asked variations of the same question. “Why is it taking so long?” one might say. “Wasn’t I supposed to be able to take a ride in a robo-taxi by now? I get it. Last year, Waymo’s vehicles hit ten…

Self Driving Cars

7 min read

Why Deep Learning Is Not A Silver Bullet For Autonomous Vehicles
Why Deep Learning Is Not A Silver Bullet For Autonomous Vehicles
Self Driving Cars

7 min read


Published in Starsky Robotics 10–4 Labs

·Dec 12, 2018

Starsky’s Approach To Solving Long-Haul Trucking — And Why It Doesn’t Include LIDAR

We’re hyper-focused on automating a highly constrained use case: the operation of rigs on highways. For the tricky parts we rely on tele-operation by human drivers. The original article was published in IEEE Spectrum Last year a partner at a well-known Silicon Valley venture firm wouldn’t take a meeting with…

Self Driving Cars

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Starsky’s Approach To Solving Long-Haul Trucking — And Why It Doesn’t Include LIDAR
Starsky’s Approach To Solving Long-Haul Trucking — And Why It Doesn’t Include LIDAR
Self Driving Cars

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