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Once again, if you're going to test your self driving car on public streets, all data should be open and public. Car companies shouldn't be competing on how to prevent life-or-death incidents, they should be cooperating.


Only one company still pushing for autonomous testing on public roads has not been committed to transparency, and it ain't Waymo.


Forcing people to tackle the problem from different angles without sharing is the best way to avoid local minimum.


the local minimum is that any single company monopolizes self-driving cars, using the data as a moat.


there are multiple. that's why they're called 'local' minimum.




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