What if the soul character leaves the Google self-driving car?
The technical director of the Google Auto Car Development project (Google Car Project) left, leaving two questions: Why was it chosen at this time? Also, what is it for?
Chris Urmson, Google's auto-driving vehicle development project chief, has suddenly resigned recently, and the company doesn't have the exact message that it's just a simple human change or that its autonomous vehicle program has changed.
Urmson posted a message on the community website Medium on August 5th, US time. In addition to announcing his departure, he also described his mental journey in the development of autonomous vehicles during this time: "Now, after the 1.8 million-mile self-driving journey I decided that this was the time to leave and look for the next adventure."
He wrote: "Today will be my last day as the technical director of the project, let our car have 150 years of driving experience equivalent to human beings, and help to make our project jump from pure research to expectations. One day everyone can After using the product development, I am ready for the new challenge."
This message immediately reminds me of two questions: Why did he choose to resign now? What is the reason? Unfortunately, the answers to these two questions are completely unfounded in Urmson's social website po; EE TImes editors also tried to contact him, but so far no response.
When it comes to autonomous vehicles, Urmson is undoubtedly the most well-known and most qualified professional authority to discuss Google's autonomous vehicle development experience; for those of us who are responsible for running autonomous vehicle technology, his departure is really down. Broken glasses, because we always listen to him in relevant technical seminars, look for clues from his speeches at the US Senate hearings and blog posts.
In response to Urmson's motivation to leave, a report in the New York TImes raised two speculations: First, the report said that Google hired John Krafcik, former US president of Hyundai, as a self-driving vehicle last year. The project host may be the fuse that Urmson sprouted.
Second, according to the report, Urmson had a quarrel with Google founder and Alphabet CEO Larry Page in private about the development of Google's self-driving vehicles a few months ago.
So from all indications, the whole thing means that Google’s auto-driving vehicle plan will go downhill, or will it be a village? Regardless of the ending, we all know that there is no difference with the new boss concept; in any case, Google's self-driving vehicle is the brainchild of Urmson and his team in the past seven and a half years, and the sudden emergence of "airborne troops" It is human nature to happen.
What's more remarkable is that Page and Urmson have different views on the next phase of Google's auto-driving vehicle project. As everyone knows, Google’s X research team is under increasing pressure to get a lucrative financial return for parent company Alphabet; although Google’s self-driving vehicles have accumulated 1.8 million miles of driving distance, most experts It is believed that it will take several years to reach the fifth stage of its definition, that is, to fully automate driving.
Urmson has always opposed the idea that human driving plays an intermediate role, and there are good reasons for it; is Urmson's insistence on this point not supported by Page? Also, have two people expressed disagreement about the potential for auto-driving vehicle technology to license other depots? Even some of them are opposed to the idea of ​​technology licensing? Or, do they both agree on the commercialization of autonomous vehicles?
Now, everything is just speculation; and the more likely is that Urmson should not decide to leave because he doesn't like the new boss; if Urmson is really passionate about developing autonomous driving technology, and as he said, for becoming a Google self-driving A member of the vehicle development team is honored, and now is definitely not the time to leave.
When the whole world is paying attention to the every move of Google's self-driving vehicles, this issue is indeed heating up; if Urmson can, he will stay... The current situation is so interesting, how can people let go? Urmson should face a number of choices and take time to organize his thoughts and look at autonomous vehicles with a new perspective.
Of course, he can also choose a company he wants to go, and he can choose the salary level and position he wants. Or he can completely forget the auto-driving vehicle and put a completely different problem.
The author's suggestion is that Urmson understands this technology, has extensive experience in autonomous vehicles, and has expertise in any other automotive industry; he can continue to play the role of autonomous vehicles, but not just cheerleading, but Can become a leading force, according to various tests and assessments, it is recommended that the self-driving vehicle industry should slow down the development speed or continue to accelerate development.
Through this mission, Urmson enables the autonomous vehicle industry (including academic research institutions) to move in the most appropriate and bright direction and advise car manufacturers on what they need before they can drive autonomous vehicles on the road. ready. In short, even if he is no longer a Google person, he does not necessarily need a company as a backing.
Compilation: Judith Cheng
(Reference text: Robo-Car CTO Goes Footloose on Google, by Junko Yoshida)
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