In their present sensor stack - unlikely in my opinion. It isn’t possible to drive when you can’t see and their cameras are frequently blinded during sunset and sunrise.
Humans cope by moving their head, sunglasses, visors to block the sun or wherever it takes to see well enough in these conditions.
Maybe Tesla could think out of the box for their future models since they’re adamant on no LIDAR. Given the current cost of LIDAR is affordable, in my mind it makes sense to include LIDAR. Their current models though will not get to L4 driving.
Either way, many of their decisions make me question their judgement about safety of their passengers and the general public.
Exactly. And to add to what you say, adversarial problems in data science are much harder than the regular ones which data scientists deal with and the hubris that I often see with data scientists won't cut it here. You need a different mindset to tackle these problems and they must be handled incrementally with the real world in the loop.
The truth is much worse than this suggests: This recent article in The Morning Context gives a lot more detail as to why this company is absolutely unethical: https://themorningcontext.com/indias-whitehatjr-is-startup-h... [Requires sign in to read unfortunately]
WhiteHat Jr. is the sleaziest company to emerge from India's start-up ecosystem. They have used underhanded and unethical means to take down fair criticism online. They have used misleading and outright false advertising to sell their product to parents.
I can only hope that people wake up to how evil this company is.
The apparent success that WhiteHat enjoyed with a $300 million exit within 18 months of founding has unfortunately inspired the current generation of entrepreneurs in India to also try their hands in the edtech space over everything else.
Most of them however don't know the scale of the fraud and unimaginably shady marketing and operating practices WhiteHat engaged in to reach that valuation.
1. They don't make the food, they only transport it. Payment of taxes or GST on food delivered is between the food maker and the food receiver – dabbawala is not involved.
2. Article claims roughly 200,000 deliveries per day.
3a. Cost of each delivery is Rs. 800 per month / 24 working days = approx Rs. 33 (or less than half a dollar) per delivery. Normally the delivery involves a pick up as well (previous day's container is picked up along with today's delivery).
3b. Value of food content is irrelevant – it can be super expensive or dirt cheap, dabbawalas only care that it is packed in certain types of containers.
I think the BBC has completely missed the sentiment on the ground. There is widespread support for this. Every single person I've spoken to in the long queues near ATMs have expressed that they don't mind the inconvenience because it will help the country.
Yes, I personally have been very surprised by how positive the reaction has been. My home has a lot of small shops around ("chaiwalla" tea booths, tiny grocery "kirana" shops, little idly shops, lots of roadside vendors, etc.), and the reaction has been almost universally positive. There's of course a bit of grumbling about cash being hard to find in the first two days, but even those come in a manner similar to how one might complain about rain - taken as an inevitable small nuisance in the larger scheme of things.
One part of the explanation is that these are the same folks that often deal with the small politicians and exploitative moneylenders - so now, seeing these corrupt people suffer greatly from this move, they're full of heartfelt praise for the central govt. At least half the praise I hear has been in the form of "you should have seen that politician's face" or "that moneylender is roaming all over town trying to change his black money".
The problem is that that sentiment will turn sour pretty soon as the supplies will get affected badly. Most of the truck drivers which supply essential goods are paid in cash by their owners. Think what will happen if the payment is deferred.
It might be very sad to say but a lot of these shops exists because of the black money. Some are mere shopkeepers whose owners would have opened these shops to invest their money. Now think what would happen when their cash gets sucked away. There would definitely be a huge loss of jobs.
If real estate is hit badly then a lot of laborers would be jobless overnight. A lot of projects would have to be stalled.
Presently there is an uneasy calm and some sort of schadenfreude but when the dust settles the consequences will not be good.
No, but having a bank account and therefore a payment card a) gives you another means of paying for things besides cash, and b) likely means that you don't have your life savings in the form of now-invalid currency.
Humans cope by moving their head, sunglasses, visors to block the sun or wherever it takes to see well enough in these conditions.
Maybe Tesla could think out of the box for their future models since they’re adamant on no LIDAR. Given the current cost of LIDAR is affordable, in my mind it makes sense to include LIDAR. Their current models though will not get to L4 driving.
Either way, many of their decisions make me question their judgement about safety of their passengers and the general public.
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