You're inside of a self-driving truck (🤯), that truck is "wearing" augmented-reality goggles (🤯🤯), and it's interacting with virtual actors performing tests in the real world that would be impossible to do in a traditional closed course environment (🤯🤯🤯)
Introducing Mixed Reality Testing: The comprehensive safety solution the AV industry needs.
We've developed a totally new paradigm that combines real trucks with virtual scenarios generated in real-time by Onboard Waabi World. Like augmented reality goggles that blend physical and virtual worlds, MRT enables the Waabi Driver to drive autonomously down a real test track while simultaneously sensing and reacting to intelligent, simulated actors that create complex safety critical situations.
MRT eliminates the traditional constraints of closed-course testing. We can conduct exponentially more tests than ever before and in a continuous fashion, with extraordinary levels of diversity and realism. Traffic jams materialize instantly, pedestrians jaywalk unpredictably, aggressive drivers weave through traffic, children dart into the street - all tested safely without real-world consequences.
This breakthrough builds a foundation for AVs we can truly trust and accelerates the path to safer roads for everyone.
See MRT in action: https://t.co/4AQaziYAPq
If you’re interested in pursuing a career in venture capital, this is an amazing opportunity to work with and learn from world class people at a world class firm.
@DavidLazoCh@rafaosoriomalca He’s 28, she’s 44, and this wasn’t some random fan jumping on stage.
It’s @rolemodel and Natalie Portman and a regular part of his act where he brings out someone to dance to this song.
@albertwenger@usv So many hiring announcements focus solely on past success and pedigree, this intentionality around bringing the right voices around the table is what makes USV so special. Congrats!
@jheitzeb Makes sense for you and I, though agentic coding has way more impact societally. Also, artful design is more obvious to a user than artful code, so while ai tools are great and making things look slick, human designers excel at creating truly special experiences
By that time, the evolution from unknown mom-and-pop salumeria to a nationally known shop with lines out the door every day, run by the family of @Mariobatali, the biggest celebrity chef of the time, but those early days and Dino’s hospitality will forever live on in my memory
Many fond memories of Dino from the early days of Salumi - meatballs, porchetta, all of the salumi sandwiches, and watching his sister Izzy making gnocchi in the original storefront window. Rest in Peace! @Mariobatali
https://t.co/aOprOYHI0M
In 2007, my startup had an office upstairs from the shop. Pro: could always get in line early for a sandwich, Con: the entire building smelled like warm aged meat in the summer.
The inexperienced person you hire today could become the leader who carries forward everything you've built. @jerrycolonna on investing in potential over résumés: https://t.co/47Z6FNlGO8
This was the ideal “spare five” minutes we always talked about at @spare5/@mighty_ai.
Great for micro-labeling, even more powerful for location-based crowdsourcing where Uber has a massive and unique position compared to any other player in the space.
Good take from @treiner5
"~33M trips per day * ~8.8M drivers and couriers = An ocean of micro-idle windows the company already optimizes with heatmaps and batched dispatch.
Even single-digit participation and minutes-per-day can translate into millions of labeled units at U.S.-grade quality, a supply pool that rivals specialist shops and Mechanical Turk while avoiding their cold-start and QA headaches. If ads became the high-margin “second engine” for delivery networks, RL/labeling can rhyme for mobility: a capital-light, counter-cyclical revenue line that monetizes the long tail of driver downtime without cannibalizing trips. Turning operational exhaust into P&L is the same discipline I’ve highlighted in marketplace S-curve stacking and incremental margin engines before."
@gilbert I’ve never been there - i just remember hearing that Waymo had their own private space and know that TRC has rentable area on the same campus, but your photos very well might be Waymo’s
@gilbert IIRC Waymo’s property in is/was separate from TRC’s. TRC has a big site in Ohio too and many AV companies use them
Wired had a big article on Castle awhile back: https://t.co/7TMhfZOLxb
The fence is more to keep people from watching tests than the course itself being secret