Here's a summary of his entire background in order: Formula 1 engineer for many years; Technical director for a Le Mans Prototype vehicle; Head of VWs self driving division for the past 1 year.
He has no software background... he specializes in making gas cars go fast. He has no idea how to make a self driving car.. and honestly, why would we think he would? He hasn't exactly been pioneering vision systems, or anything else related to the tech.
Yeah, because making Formula 1 cars "go fast" involves no software whatsoever, right?
I love how you dismiss "Formula 1 engineer for many years". Maybe if he helped build a payment processor we could take him seriously.
>He has no idea how to make a self driving car.. and honestly, why would we think he would?
Because he's running the autonomous car division of the biggest automaker in the world? I have no idea if he's right or not, but dismissing him as not knowing what he's talking about is hubris. He's trying to build this stuff.
So much ignorance and inaccuracies in one comment.
(a) He was the Head of F1 Development and Advanced Technologies which involves significant software exposure. F1 has a ridiculous amount of software both on car and in the factory to process all of the sensor data and design future cars. I've first hand seen their streaming big data stacks and they are on par with anything you will see at a top tier startup.
(b) He was the Head of Product Design for Apple's Car and we know they were going to have autonomous capabilities as well as hundreds of ML models powering AR, Maps, facial recognition etc. If you think you can get away without deeply understanding software whilst leading a major Apple project then you really don't understand how that company works.
(c) He's the CEO of VW Autonomy. He doesn't even need to be an expert in software. He just needs to be able to listen to his engineers.
If Bezos started a book company, then failed and admitted he's not sure if it's possible to sell books... then I would question whether or not he has the background to sell books... especially if I look around, and other experts in the field don't agree.
My eyes looked at this comment, see that it's totally true, but yet downvotes. Context. But yes, there's an absolute truth to someone that can't think outside the box and deny something is possible vs the people that make it happen.
It's called a sceptic. Almost every great true visionary had them. I'm no Musk fanboy but he's kinda like the modern day epitome of everyone saying no this isn't possible and it happened anyway. And to add insult to injury he started a rocket company kinda simultaneously. There absolutely is truth to scepticism literally blocking the mind. If you will it enough it can happen is a thing. If we all just put our heads down on how complicated that would be, I don't think we'd be very far.
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