Farewell, Udacity!

After four and a half years, today is my last day at Udacity. On Monday, I will return to my roots in core self-driving car…

Graph Neural Networks

A Waymo blog post caught my eye recently, “VectorNet: Predicting behavior to help the Waymo Driver make better…

Annotated: Karpathy’s Autopilot Talk

Andrei Karpathy is one of the most impressive and celebrated computer scientists in the world…

Where Are The ADAS Startups?

The second quarter of 2020 has been pretty great for Phantom.ai. The Silicon Valley-based ADAS startup closed…

Zoox For Sale?

Zoox, a giant and secretive and fascinating Silicon Valley startup, is allegedly for sale, according to The Information…

The Six NVIDIA Xavier Processors

NVIDIA’s Xavier system on a chip (SoC) for self-driving cars recently passed TÜV ISO 26262 functional…

Rough Economics for Driverless Vehicles

Waymo has begun offering (“selling”) driverless rides to members of the general public in…

Lyft Level 5’s Machine Learning Pipeline

Lyft Level 5 recently published an amazing overview of their PyTorch-based machine…

Tesla’s $16 Million Profit

Tesla’s Q1 2020 earnings call was Wednesday. By all accounts, the company crushed it. They turned a $16 million…

Hello, Voyage!

Today is my first day as a motion control engineer at Voyage. I’m so excited!