autonomous vehicles: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/autonomous-vehicles/ Everyone on the record about autonomous vehicles: 5 verbatim quotes from 3 people, November 2019 to January 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:32:48 +0000 David Friedberg: Friedberg says autonomous vehicles reduce fatalities by 95% per million miles but single cras https://minutesof.com/q/d29a3b26-5a23-4b44-8f22-39ab2a890c66/ https://minutesof.com/q/d29a3b26-5a23-4b44-8f22-39ab2a890c66/ “for every million miles, autonomous vehicles reduce fatalities by, like, ninety five percent. But if there's one autonomous vehicle that crashes once, everyone shuts that entire program down and says, wait a second.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:27:21 +0000 autonomous vehicles David Friedberg: Friedberg states autonomous vehicles reduce fatalities by ninety five percent per million mil https://minutesof.com/q/8a672883-6200-4d3d-b2db-a0cc4013c18f/ https://minutesof.com/q/8a672883-6200-4d3d-b2db-a0cc4013c18f/ “I don't know if you followed this autonomous vehicle stuff in California, But, you know, for every million miles, autonomous vehicles reduce fatalities by, like, ninety five percent.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:27:21 +0000 autonomous vehicles Bill Gurley: Gurley notes Chinese solid-state LiDAR costs $130 per car versus Waymo's $5,000, a result of comp https://minutesof.com/q/035c913e-1b4a-4fee-b520-d37ee018abac/ https://minutesof.com/q/035c913e-1b4a-4fee-b520-d37ee018abac/ “And it's actually in China right now is, I think being priced at like $130 a car, this solid state MEMS LiDAR, whereas the Waymo LiDAR is like $5,000 a car.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:20:47 +0000 autonomous vehicles Bill Gurley: Gurley says Tesla replaced coded self-driving with neural network using driver videos as input an https://minutesof.com/q/0095dec9-4639-4988-8110-944d679ce57e/ https://minutesof.com/q/0095dec9-4639-4988-8110-944d679ce57e/ “What we learned this week is that they've completely tossed all of that out and gone with a neural network model where they're uploading videos from their best drivers.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:29:00 +0000 autonomous vehicles Gavin Baker: Baker predicts autonomous vehicles will reverse urbanization trends by making long commutes toler https://minutesof.com/q/61486ea1-4cce-4d0d-8d5a-c4ac5953b53c/ https://minutesof.com/q/61486ea1-4cce-4d0d-8d5a-c4ac5953b53c/ “So you've had this huge trend towards people moving back into the cities because they wanna be able to walk around. People don't like long commutes.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:30:00 +0000 autonomous vehicles