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Old 11-29-2017, 03:56 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
They make it sound like it's not about driving finesse.


I call shenanigans.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/self-dr...cars/drive-px/



I would expect LIDAR, for instance, also following a development curve. I know the cost has been cut by an order of magnitude recently.

edit:
That's in the short term. Down the road () we can apparently blow right past Moore's law with neuromorphic (brainlike) silver wire mesh single-atomic-transistor brainz:

https://www.wired.com/story/brain-built-on-switches/



Do you remember Isaac Asimov's Positronic Brain? This is that, in a vegetative state. What happens when it wakes up?
3-4 kw?

Psht.

Just chuck the air-conditioning, and we'll be back to zero.
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