Brad Templeton
Person on 4 sites
Software architect and writer who has been publishing about robocars since before they existed, an early consultant to Google's self-driving car team and…
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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5 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Moving a robotaxi's safety driver from the steering wheel to the passenger seat is a bad idea dressed up as a milestone. (opens korrents.com)
“Several companies have tried to declare they met a major milestone by having "nobody behind the wheel" and moving supervision to the passenger seat. It's a bad idea”
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Robotaxis should be judged and regulated on comparable fleet-wide incident data, not on individual incidents. (opens korrents.com)
“More data for better comparisons are good. Now everybody has to do it, and regulators and the public have to learn to look at only the data, and not individual incidents”
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Robotaxis reached London within days of a date predicted for them thirteen years earlier, while most other public forecasts of that date were badly wrong. (opens korrents.com)
“13 years ago, at the Wired 2013 event in London, I was asked when robotaxis would arrive there and as a joke, gave an answer of June 22, 2026 that turned out to be impossibly spot on.”
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Moving a robotaxi's safety driver from the steering wheel to the passenger seat is a bad idea dressed up as a milestone. (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Light L16 (opens rcmnd.app)
“The plan is an excellent one. I purchased the L16 but must sadly report it is "not yet the camera of the future" though I feel the general idea points the way there.”
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Sony RX100 (opens rcmnd.app)
“Sometimes you want to be able to just walk around casually, with no camera on your neck, not looking like a tourist, so you buy the best camera that fits in your pocket. For I and many others, this has been the Sony…”
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Skype (opens rcmnd.app)
“If you settle on one system -- I would recommend Skype at this time -- you can get the more tech-aware parties at the other end to use it.”
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Light L16 (opens rcmnd.app)