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Rivian has hired former Waymo executive James Philbin to lead autonomy and AI at the automaker, a new role that signals the company\u2019s interest in automated driving technology.<\/p>\n
Philbin was director of software engineering for two years at Waymo. Before that, Philbin worked for five years at Amazon\u2019s self-driving subsidiary Zoox, where he lead computer vision and perception.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we look at our future roadmap and the integral role of AI\/ML, James\u2019 arrival couldn\u2019t come at a more impactful time,\u201d Rivian founder and CEO Scaringe wrote in a LinkedIn post.<\/p>\n
Scaringe reiterated that point Wednesday while on stage at Disrupt. Scaringe said he expects Level 2 and Level 3 systems that handle many driving tasks while still requiring a human driver to take over if necessary will to get better over time and scale faster than the more hardware-heavy Level 4 systems that are designed to handle all of the driving in certain conditions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think what we\u2019ve seen happen with the hardware heavy systems are that takes a lot of capital and the roadmap is much longer than most anticipated,\u201d said Scaringe.<\/p>\n
Companies like Aurora, Argo AI, Cruise, Waymo and Zoox have spent billions developing autonomous vehicles for ridehail and delivery, but have yet to commercialize at scale.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, \u201chardware-constrained\u201d vehicles, or vehicles with fewer sensors and lower levels of autonomy, are present on hundreds of thousands of consumer and commercial vehicles today.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo there\u2019s this wonderful learning that you get from the deployed fleet. And so while there\u2019s less hardware, the role that AI and ML (machine learning) can play in your camera\u2019s training, therefore, your planning algorithms, is really quite powerful,\u201d said Scaringe. \u201cAnd so our view as a company is really a more hardware-constrained system that can be applied across a lot of vehicles in millions and millions of miles is a platform that\u2019s going to have the better long term potential.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over time, Scaringe said Rivian will add new sensing modalities to its vehicles. As chipmakers increase compute capacity, the automaker could expand to Level 4 autonomy, he added.<\/p>\n
Improving Rivian\u2019s autonomous functions isn\u2019t just a move to attract customers looking for the next replacement to Tesla\u2019s Autopilot. Scaringe said Rivian\u2019s insurance products actually incentivize using Driver+, Rivian\u2019s brand of advanced driver assist system.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reason for that is it\u2019s much better than the best human,\u201d said Scaringe. \u201cThe vehicle\u2019s not going to check its phone for a text, it\u2019s not going to get distracted by something out the window. So the safety aspect of moving into these Level 2, Level 3 systems that intentionally drive towards more and more time being driven by the vehicle itself is meaningful and real.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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