Can Self-Driving Go Mainstream Inside 10 Years? Watch This Debate

Templeton:

I’ll define why self-driving autos are properly on their technique to being mainstream in 10 years. To me meaning they’re accessible in 50 or extra main cities, and being bought in first rate volumes to personal people for freeways and main roads. That does not imply you should buy a personal automotive that does minor metropolis streets, or get a journey in each city.

Clearly, we now see pilot companies working in 31 cities world wide like San Francisco, Phoenix, Austin, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Toronto and lots of others, with smaller supply robots in lots of extra. The passenger companies are pilots, although among the supply companies are manufacturing. I’ve made a map of cities the place companies have been or shortly will probably be deployed with no worker within the automobile and it is rather more populated than folks count on.

That is coming via the march of Moore’s regulation mixed with the best effort in robotics in historical past, with an enormous quantity of element work.

To know simply how this grows, it’s essential to perceive that the core goal is robotaxi, not non-public automotive, and that perfection will not be obligatory — it isn’t even the proper purpose — earlier than deployment.

What issues to deploy a taxi or supply service is whether or not it is commercially viable. It could solely deal with a specific area or subset of streets, and could also be supplemented with carshare, transit, TNCs and automotive supply. It does not must do all the pieces. To get actually massive, it has to supply automotive substitute to the city dweller, however it may be fairly profitable with the newborn step of changing Uber.

You are able to do this while you’ve reached an appropriate degree of security, in addition to of highway citizenship. To do this you want an “MTBF” higher than human. You want your error price low sufficient, and the severity of errors low sufficient however you do not should be error free.

To resolve this, one primary strategy is simply to have seen a lot in thousands and thousands of miles of testing and billions of miles of sim in order that the frequency of surprises is low. Though nook instances do not simply occur on the corners, you possibly can measure how usually you are shocked. And you may as well measure how usually you deal with surprises properly and the way usually you fail, and from that see in case your MTBF is low sufficient. A number of corporations have already reached that degree of their pilot tasks, a minimum of on security, and so they’re working quickly on highway citizenship.

They’ve made a raft of nice instruments to get this confidence. Superb LIDARS with nice decision and efficiency that may by no means miss that one thing is there. Imaging radars with velocity detection and climate penetration. Though CV is not prepared for prime time by itself, its bettering quickly, bettering a very powerful activity of prediction and dropping in value. All these sensors are plummeting in value and hovering in efficiency. In case you do not imagine in them in the present day it will be silly to guess in opposition to them a couple of years from now.

The chief is Waymo. I labored on that staff a decade in the past and proceed to be impressed. Cruise is behind but additionally reaching milestones. We have all seen the press over each groups having stall-outs and little errors right here and there, blocking visitors, being confused by uncommon conditions, or ready for a rescue driver after they staff does not belief distant help to be 100% secure. These could seem foolish nevertheless it’s precisely what you wish to see — the automobiles on on the roads to search out errors and repair them.

No person’s been damage by Waymo and Cruise’s incidents stay minor and higher than human. The beauty of robots is, not like folks, they do not repeat the identical mistake twice. Nearly each drawback you see is a hit — one thing discovered that will not occur once more.

For skeptics, it is also price nothing that communications tech is also booming, and no person doubts that lengthy earlier than 10 years we’ll see extremely dependable, quick and low latency communications in all of the wanted zones, sufficient in order that when you needed to, issues may very well be solved with distant driving, although that is not how anyone desires to do it — however they are going to if the choice is to not deploy.

China can also be going very robust. Over 300 groups are engaged on autos and there are dozens of totally autonomous deployments. Regulation won’t stand in the best way there, although it is an open query within the USA, and undoubtedly in Europe. Certainly, if I had to do that debate for Europe I might be much less optimistic, although Mercedes guarantees their S-Class will do 130kph on the Autobahn with out driver consideration pretty quickly.

Whereas I am by no means a fan of infrastructure based mostly approaches, and they’re doomed within the west as a result of the tempo of change and innovation in infrastructure is measured in a long time, it isn’t at that tempo in China — simply have a look at what’s occurred within the final 10 years, and lots of Chinese language groups are engaged on infrastructure based mostly approaches.

To return to the core thesis — the rationale folks do not assume this know-how will succeed is that they attempt to outline the issue as a lot larger than it’s. To get an actual enterprise serving a number of folks you solely have to do first rate robotaxi service in profitable sized zones of main cities. You need not drive each highway. We’ll speak later about client automobiles, however they do not should be that closely featured both.

Contemplating autonomous autos are already on the highway in over 30 cities, it is a slam dunk to being loads larger by 2033, except the regulation shuts it down, and proper now it does not appear on observe to try this, besides in a couple of locations. When the change comes it can boggle your thoughts with its pace. This newspaper clipping from 1928 describes how the horse and buggy business utterly collapsed in 2 years when its time got here. Moore’s regulation all the time surprises you — do not guess in opposition to it.

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Dan Levy

Thanks a lot, Brad. OK, let’s pivot to the con facet of the controversy and arguing in opposition to autonomous driving being mainstream within the subsequent 10 years. As Professor Raj Raj Kumar, Raj, please go forward. You had you. Have 6 minutes.

Raj Rajkumar

Thanks, Dan. Simply so as to add a bit bit extra intro about the place I come from. I used to be the lead of the Programs Engineering group of the CMU staff that received the 2007 that City Problem at that occasion, in my opinion, was the occasion that triggered the creation of the AV business that we all know in the present day, and I have been working with the Common Motors for about. 18 years consecutively beginning in 2004, so I am extraordinarily intricately conscious of the know-how progress, the guarantees which have been made in search. So we do a V software program growth each day we check. On non-public tracks and simulation on and on public roads in Pittsburgh and past. So I actually are available with that visceral expertise. In case you #1 #2, I’m very optimistic about autonomous autos actually reworking the face of transportation has been nowhere. I solely do assume that it may take time. It is a very advanced area. Our subsequent slide please. So the important thing level I wish to make is that I assume my fellow debater right here, Brad talked concerning the hype. Let me contact upon that. Let me offer you a way for the complexities of the area. Why is it taking so lengthy and we’re not there but in the direction of the place ABS are speculated to be by this this time limit, I’ll speak concerning the. Know-how and primarily it is limitations, which we’re truly going to take time, let me speak concerning the enterprise facet of Robo taxis that discuss dependability and scalability that Brad touched upon. And I’ll mainly make the other case that Brad did. I feel there’s a robust case to be made for client autos turning into. Extremely automated, proper? I am speaking about excessive levels of automation, not full autonomy, proper? Subsequent slide please. So I assume the hype has been for fairly a while since 2007. Plus, is that autonomous journey sharing provided that Uber, Lyft had been into the sport as properly? It could do away with automobile possession inside years. So go to 2010, 2011. Most regulation was in operation since then. Interval 2023, we’re nowhere. Near eliminating automobile possession, proper, so one has to take these items with a giant grain of salt. Proper. Most regulation, actually. It is actually on the semiconductor setup issues. Issues get sooner, issues getting sooner doesn’t imply that we probably accomplish the intelligence required to mainly drive a automobile autonomous. They’re utterly two totally different domains. In case your uncooked efficiency is alone not ample, we have to mainly make useful paradigm. Modifications, enhancements, enhancements. So the fact is that in the present day we’re 16 years because the 2007 DARPA City Problem Google Slash Far more actually had its roots there. Larry Web page and Sergey Brin had been on the occasion when the ultimate truly occurred opened up their eyes. They employed a bunch of key folks from CMU, Stanford, and the remainder is historical past, as they are saying, and in the meantime. Corporations like Argo AI embark have shut down corporations like Neuro, have been scaling again regardless of investments of. Billions of {dollars}, if you’ll, with a B, proper? So query actually is what went improper? Properly, subsequent slide please. The the area of driving is enormously advanced. All of us adults within the room in the present day drive, so we take it as a right. However it turns on the market’s truly an enormous mess of various issues truly occur in any respect on a regular basis. After which the people are simply clever, versatile, adaptive sufficient to mainly react to these conditions. On the fly. I even when the scenario is one thing that we’ve by no means ever seen earlier than, proper, the realm of in the present day won’t know what to do when it encounters scenario. It has not been programmed to do. It isn’t the info at on the coaching set for the info proper? So extra particularly, there’s actually this big huge cross product of. A protracted listing of climate situations. Lighting situations. Site visitors situations and highway situations, rural city tunnels, and so forth and so forth. Proper. Let’s take unhealthy climate. It’s a must to cope with heavy rain, probably snow situations for situations, work zones, work zones could be altering on a regular basis. The work zone itself may very well be transferring. Detours could also be in place when building is happening, driving could also be compelled to go onto the shoulders. Which will not be within the highway maps and so forth and so forth. So work zones in its in itself truly represent a really. They’re advanced set of use instances. The following piece, mainly the image says says all of it flag males mainly a flag males can truly use props of very totally different varieties. They might not use props in any respect. Simply use hand gestures and people. After all, they’re people. They should take a break and so they’ll mainly be paying consideration, not listen. Be ambiguous and so forth. So simply mainly these three units of situations which may occur in mixtures of. Dangerous climate work zones. Flag males may embrace flag girls, in fact as properly. These are very arduous issues for computer systems to unravel anytime within the close to future, so we’ve to be very cautious about what we imply by autonomy. Full autonomy is a great distance away, and all these robo taxi corporations, due to this fact, are proscribing themselves to a areas and cities. The place the climate is nice, that the lightning tendencies needs to be good, after which when these quote UN quote. Edge instances truly occur. They mainly say, hey, we will mainly lend distant help or mainly have the automobile simply mainly wait there, ship out a a bodily group of individuals to mainly retrieve the automobile from there and so forth. And so sure, we’ve varied deployments, if you’ll, however they don’t seem to be the place they should be. To be scalable and to earn money and turn out to be a viable enterprise subsequent line. So the know-how limitations, mainly I assume there’s this frequent demise manner analogy that we’ll speak concerning the first phase of the controversy once we transfer on to 3 particular matters. The analogy goes like ohh people, we drive with eyes alone. We use our years too, however so due to this fact computer systems can drive with cameras alone. The human mind will not be. A pc and vice versa. AI is the phrase that is in fact being bandied if. The place I actually consider pc intelligence as an alternate various type of intelligence. That is my enlargement of AI. Unsure the place it’s, not human intelligence. The human mind can purpose, contextualize, generalized, and specialised, and lots of of thousands and thousands of years of evolution made we people, who we’re. And I assume I’ve stated this already, robotic taxis of in the present day, they do require interventions by dispatch well being even beneath comparatively benign working situations of assorted varieties and so forth and so forth. Brad, with the introduced this up, I’m a robust believer in infrastructure assist which can truly assist autos go a really great distance. Subsequent subsequent slide. The enterprise mannequin, I assume I might let me move it this very, very bluntly, if you’ll. The income mannequin is definitely missing for far more the lead within the the area and GM cruise the place they’re spending for instance, they alone may very well be spending simply 1 to $1.5 billion a 12 months with the B. And the income streams are miniscule, proper? They have been making an attempt to boost a number of rounds of investments and so forth. It’s not clear that they really have the funding pipeline. After all they’re. Dad or mum truly has deep pockets, if you’ll, however even they’ve been saying they go elevate funds externally and that exterior funding has dried up. As a result of the scalability doesn’t appear to be there. The deployment timelines do not needs to be there, and income are nowhere within the horizon, proper? After which in the meantime, there are skewed utilization patterns. These robo taxis needs to be working on a regular basis to mainly earn money, however you may have excessive demand throughout peak hours, little or no demand in off peak hours and so forth. So it isn’t clear that bankers will probably be earning money on a regular basis is completely required. As a result of the investments which might be required are very massive, proper? And mainly the underside line is that robo taxis in the present day are cash 6. All of that mainly is about, hey, the market is a number of trillions of {dollars} per 12 months and due to this fact we needs to be investing. However corporations together with very extra GM crews investing billions and billions of {dollars} with mainly. The the crossover level when issues turn out to be worthwhile, it is a lengthy, lengthy, lengthy, very long time away. And the query actually is that may administration proceed to assist these sorts of investments, proper when administration adjustments, count on dramatic reductions. Precisely what occurred to? Argo AI, proper? Mainly administration change. As I stated, I do not see cash being spent. Robo taxis. Let’s go spend cash on including automation options for client autos. Subsequent slide. So I assume so simply to position my backside line right here, I feel excessive automation, not full autonomy. Is a income generated in the present day retains the automotive enterprise viable and enticing? You add sensors, you add a touch plus automation capabilities after which a human driver could also be current to take over solely when wanted. After which I do imagine that full secure autonomy is what I prefer to name. It will likely be potential within the subsequent 10 days, not full autonomy. There, distant steering could also be accessible if a human will not be current or the human will probably be requested to take over and drive every time the software program can not deal with the scenario. Mainly, they’ve requested for assist as wanted, in any other case the human needn’t take note of the duty at hand. So that is the place I feel the enterprise is viable and the know-how, as a result of viable and it buys the automotive business and the know-how time to mainly incrementally evolve. In order that slowly however steadily we conquer that massive huge. Set of working situations. In case you subsequent slide. So placing I assume I’ll play this video within the background when you can play the video this playable. Video will not be taking part in so.

Amar Pradhan

It is it isn’t sorry.

Raj Rajkumar

Yeah, in order that’s tremendous. So I assume this can be a video the place my staff had developed right here in CMU in Pittsburgh, truly drives from the city campus of Carnegie Mellon College, goes all the best way to a Township of Cranberry about 30 miles away, 55 visitors lights going via city roads. Becoming a member of merging into our into our a freeway, taking Interstate highways, taking exit, going via a 3 totally different enterprise districts and so forth and so forth. And that is it. Totally autonomous, when you proper. So I totally conscious. Of what the know-how can do in the present day, and it is in my group truly that developed it, however I am additionally extraordinarily circumspect. Mainly over generalizing that, saying that hey, we will do that in all kinds of situations and earn money in the time-frame that we’re speaking about. So let me wrap up with that time and we’ll return to our rebuttal part, I assume. Thanks.

Dan Levy

Thanks. Thanks a lot, Raj. So I feel we had two, two totally different approaches right here. I feel you are each saying that there was very clear progress, Brad, saying there may be extra of a chance we’re getting right here. Professor Rajkumar, you recognize, you are arguing a bit extra alternative on the patron facet and simply tempering expectations and and fascinated by a few of. The the the. You understand the sensible sides of this. So we will go into rebuttal portion. Brad, you’ve 3 minutes to concern bubble feedback to Professor Raj Kumar.

Brad Templeton

OK. Properly, I imply I feel it is good that I confirmed the Gartner hype cycle as a result of that is the sample of historical past. We see issues. A number of issues not working. We do not perceive the the March of Moores Regulation. And so we’re very tempted to say, Oh my God, this isn’t going as deliberate. And naturally it by no means goes precisely as folks imagined or deliberate except world. I imply that is, however I do not assume the issues I’ve seen are intractable issues that might make you make the prediction that this isn’t going to occur. And that features within the enterprise mannequin now initially, as I discussed, Uber makes $34 billion a 12 months. It is properly price spending a few billion {dollars} in funding over a number of years when you assume you’d have a shot at simply that. Enterprise and I feel everybody thinks they’ve a shot at an ideal deal greater than that enterprise over time, not instantly. However loads. Of individuals have requested type of what went improper and I feel the factor that went improper is that the people who find themselves not excessive tech corporations like Ford that shut down Argo by no means had the identical ambition as corporations like Google and Waymo and Amazon with Zooks and GM with crews and so forth. They did not give it some thought this manner. They did not wish to see their business turned upside. Approach down by, particularly by excessive tech corporations. And so it isn’t shocking that they wish to draw back. From it now. The entire issues that Raj listed, all of these complexities and climate points, none of them are unknown to the foremost groups engaged on this. Everybody who’s optimistic is totally conscious of all of these issues and actually is totally conscious of extra issues. They spend all day discovering new issues daily, and so they learn about them, and so they’re persevering with to speculate. Some will not be, however lots of them are persevering with to in. What you are seeing in the present day, for instance, with the autos in San Francisco, which will get stalled for 10 minutes as a result of they ship a distant driver, that is them being too conservative, that is them being too secure. They run into an issue. The Distant Help staff decides we may give this automobile some steering for get out of this, however we’re not 100% assured that that is secure and we all know that sending an individual is 100%. Life, even when very very annoying. Now this turned out to harass town officers excess of they most likely anticipated it to. So I feel they made the improper selection and may have moved to with the ability to get the autos out extra. However that is very a lot a hiccup, not an intractable drawback that retains us away from 10 years, or from this being right here in 10 years. Sure, in fact. People will not be AI, however the driving drawback will not be the identical as does not require you to be a human. I’ve usually stated it requires synthetic horse intelligence. You understand {that a} horse can navigate the roads even with out its human onboard and deal issues. So yeah. Yeah, no, I received that. So I do not assume billions a 12 months is an excessive amount of. I feel that we will resolve these issues. And I feel that a whole lot of very knowledgeable persons are working very arduous at fixing these issues. I’m not terrified of it. I wish to speak concerning the enterprise issues once we get into the part on the industrial. Implications of this? I feel the enterprise alternatives stay extraordinarily excessive.

Dan Levy

Thanks. Thanks, Brad. OK, professor Raj Kumar, you’ve 3 minutes to concern rebuttal.

Raj Rajkumar

Thanks, Dan. Thanks. Thanks, Brad. So let’s separate this into actually two orthogonal dimensions. One is the tractability. Of the issue. Which can be a know-how oriented let’s then? Speak concerning the. Enterprise and different associated facets right here so. On the tractability facet, so I am a technologist. I have been engaged on clever autonomous autos, related autos for a very long time now. 19 years and and working gas. I’m very optimistic. I am very bullish as a result of that is what I do for a dwelling on a day-to-day foundation myself, proper. So I I do imagine it is tractable however I assume what. I’m saying is that. The area is so advanced. Flags that it may take time, proper? We now have already spent 16 years because the 2007 problem. We want extra time, so human intelligence advanced actually over lots of of thousands and thousands of years. Do not count on to mainly get that degree of intelligence or one thing equal or higher inside 5 10/15/20 years. Give us extra time. We’ll accomplish that. We will drive safely when you. Properly, autonomously automobile driving themselves, perhaps with assist from the infrastructure and we’ll save tons and many life. So that’s what drives my work. It is so we will truly save lives, reduce accidents and so forth so forth. And in the meantime, individuals who can not drive will probably be pushed round autonomously and so forth. They they’re fairly wholesome, will go up. So I’m a. I am very bullish concerning the tractability. It is solely a query concerning the timeline going again to Bradt shot, if you’ll. It actually needs to be prolonged in the direction of the proper, if you’ll. We’ll get there ultimately, decrease than the peak if you’ll, however we’ll. Get there so. It it’s tractable, however it may take time, primarily as a result of the sensors. Must turn out to be cheaper, extra succesful? And in the meantime I feel we most likely want to herald much more sensor varieties and so forth and so forth. In order that’s on the packability facet. We want time on the opposite facet of the enterprise facet, which is the place the pressures are coming from. All these corporations, together with GM Cruise and Waymo, they want cash to maintain the event course of up and working. Proper now, their income streams are minuscule in comparison with their expense infrastructure. The query is, how lengthy can enterprise? Put within the {dollars}, hoping that cash will truly flip up some ten, 20-30 years down the highway, proper? So actually, that is a query assessment. Properly, I fear about that a lot. So the US Division of Transportation is frightened about hey enterprise capital has begun to dry up. Does the federal government have to step in in order that we will truly maintain tempo with the Chinese language and so forth and so forth? And since it’s transformative and helpful to the transportation business? I assume there are different points like in fact regulatory facets, if you’ll, so settle acceptance and so forth. So it is mainly that full that listing of issues that want to really fall into place earlier than it will possibly occur. So let’s not exaggerate, let’s not hype it once more. Let’s mainly maintain it promising. Thanks, Dan.

Dan Levy

Nice. OK. OK. In order that’s that is a superb opening part. I feel we’ve a way of every of your sides, the controversy, let’s get now into among the matters that I feel lots of you’re vital on and we’ll we’ll wish to know some colour on. And I feel the first is on Tesla is Tesla’s. Method viable simply as a reminder, Tesla is exclusive in its strategy to AV versus others. Tesla Tesla is utilizing a imaginative and prescient solely strategy, no LIDAR, restricted use of radar, or no use of radar, no HD maps. Distinction versus what you have seen from others, that are counting on a wide range of sensors and maps, etcetera. Tesla’s actually leaning into the AI facet of it, so Brad and Professor Raj Kumar, you every have 3 minutes to offer your response to this query. Brad please.

Brad Templeton

Properly, truly I feel Raj and I are just about in settlement on being pessimistic about Tesla’s prospects right here, though he is much more pessimistic than I’m. So I personal a Tesla and I’ve written some or made some very scathing YouTube critiques that those that wish to see me rip new issues into the Tesla can can go and watch. That is error is definitely that they are making an attempt to make issues low-cost. To highschool shortly, they’re saying we wish to do it with the bottom price sensors, those which might be already within the automotive, and we’re hoping they make this canard about people can do it with their eyes, so due to this fact it should be potential, and I maintain mentioning that birds additionally fly by flapping their wings, however that is unlikely. How we will design jetliners. So the check. You strategy may work. I name it a protracted shot guess. I imply a breakthrough in pc imaginative and prescient will not be not possible. We have seen quite a few breakthroughs in quite a few fields of AI which have shocked just about all of us within the area. And you may’t deny that such breakthroughs are potential. However they’re a protracted shot. Guess I feel the opposite corporations are making smarter approaches by mainly saying let’s. And take each software at our arms, the lidars, the radars, the infrared cameras, all the pieces, they get their. Come on, make it work in an costly manner. Raj thinks it is too costly after which they’re going to fail due to price. However make it work in an costly manner after which later make it low-cost, which oddly sufficient was the Tesla grasp plan. There’s an irony as a result of Tesla constructed itself by saying let’s construct a really costly, sporty automotive and see what we will do with that. After which let’s make it low-cost later. Now I’ll give one attention-grabbing. Delivered to some issues that Tesla does that. I feel are very sensible. And will give them a victory if they will pull off this know-how guess. They’ve pre bought 500,000 folks. A self driving automotive that does not exist. Charging them as much as $15,000 every, that is a fairly outstanding. Actually, that is greater than I anticipated to price sooner or later to retrofit current automobiles to have self driving skill by way of including the sensors and compute that, you may want to take action even when Tesla utterly fails with their pc imaginative and prescient undertaking, they will purchase some staff that. Will get cancelled as a result of they their house owners adopted Raj and stated we’re not going to pay for this anymore. They will purchase a type of groups after which begin retrofitting their automobiles for $5000 or $8000 and nonetheless have. One other $8000 in revenue after they promote it to them. In order that’s an attention-grabbing place. No person else you recognize, Raj says. No person’s earning money at this. Tesla is definitely earning money. They’re promoting one thing they do not have, however they’re making big quantities of cash promoting it. So it truly provides you some hope for the likelihood they may have the ability to do one thing, however nonetheless the strategy of making an attempt to do it. Low cost first looks as if the improper strategy and that is why most of us do not imagine they seem to be a severe contender proper now.

Dan Levy

Thanks, Brad. I do know each of you’re on the identical web page, however Raj, perhaps you want to offer another sides to this query. Go forward. Yeah, 3 minutes.

Raj Rajkumar

Sure, sure, I assume as Brad identified. When Tesla wish to introduce the autopilot. The one manner they may have carried out it’s you are utilizing cameras as a result of mild has had been too costly, proper? In order that’s the one manner they may do it. And and that cameras solely cut up out numbers comparable to pixel values and such. So it’s good to mainly have imaginative and prescient processing AI to try this and let’s all be clear on it, proper? AI has gone via a number of phases. Exceptional accomplishment of the previous ten years or so. However the most effective air know-how on the market will will produce false positives and false negatives, proper? There is no manner round it, proper? So you are feeling all types of knowledge if you’ll. Tomorrow you possibly can see a a set of knowledge in the actual world that the coaching set by no means had as a result of it by no means had occurred earlier than. Proper. A brand new new look of. Of the roads of the buildings, autos and so forth, so forth. So AI will all the time mainly be problematic, proper? Because it at the moment stands, we will in fact and the AI. Group, for instance. Considered 4 years again or we’re making making a lot progress in two years. The AI driving drawback will probably be solved. OK, now go speak to them. They’re going to say not even it may occur in 10 years. So our expectations blow up initially, however the actuality is admittedly far behind. So I feel with out lidars. And Radar, I might urge all people on-line who’s utilizing a Tesla. Please be extraordinarily cautious. Don’t assume that Tesla autos can drive themselves. They won’t and be, I assume, do the proper factor for your self and for your loved ones, proper? In order that’s simply there. It’s simply degree 2 know-how and will probably be probably degree 2 know-how for a very long time to come back so long as they use solely cameras. However simply be very cautious about that with respect to the opposite factor that they do. Is that they don’t use HTML. I end up that I truly are inclined to agree go to to a fairly a level. Having HD maps, which is what GM crews appears to be utilizing. What Amos appears to be utilizing is. Not very scalable as a result of. The world adjustments on a regular basis. Seasons change on a regular basis. If you’re so I do truly are inclined to comply with agree with what Tesla is doing to a minimum of to a sure diploma there. However you do want map. Data lane degree info, however not the excessive definition decision that is required of maps that many individuals love keep in mind. So with respect to, I assume Tesla shopping for out the totally different firm and so forth, so, so forth, everyone knows I assume the individual main Tesla, I might be blown away if he mainly provides up on his ego and goes by. So the totally different firm and says I used to be improper with them. So I do not assume an individual like that ever admit that he was improper. Speak to you then.

Dan Levy

Thanks professor. Raj Kumar. OK, I feel you every have one minute to offer rebuttals on on every of the edges. I feel you are type of on the identical web page, however there’s a little little bit of a of of, of a nuance, however go forward, Brad, please present your bottle. You could have one minute.

Brad Templeton

Yeah, I am we, we each stated the identical factor on that really imagine it or not, now Elon has actually gone loopy with Twitter. I will inform you that, however he truly is ready to change his thoughts on issues. He is he is very gradual to do it generally, however he blew up his Starship rocket by not having occasions beneath it, which everybody says ought to have. He is undoubtedly going to alter his thoughts. On that, there is a bunch of issues we have actually seen that occur within the rocket area, much less so within the automotive area, however now and again it does occur. And I’ve identified the individuals who work with them. So I do not assume that is out of the query. You understand whether or not or not, I imply, I feel the lighters are literally already fairly low-cost, particularly ones from China. They’re coming all the way down to costs, which won’t be a barrier to anybody making a robo taxi. There’s nonetheless costly for client automobiles, though there are already a number of client automobiles that have gotten lidars in them. So as to do varied ADAS. Features, so I do not assume we’re truly that distant from having lied our at a client value. So there is a they may change their thoughts. Ohh, simply in a short time about maps. Tesla does use maps, they simply fake they do not maps do scale simply tremendous. I will we’ll discuss what among the firm scaling maps have carried out. Later, if you need.

Dan Levy

Thanks. I feel we would all be very fascinated to really see if Tesla pivots on the the Lidar facet, professor Raj Kumar, please, you’ve a minute to reply.

Raj Rajkumar

Thanks, Dan. So I feel Brad and I are just about on the identical web page, if you’ll. I feel lidars are being deployed in client carts in among the Chinese language fashions, if you’ll. That must be they should be put in in US automobiles and European automobiles as properly. A few issues. One is that it isn’t clear that the LIDAR is being at the moment being deployed, are sturdy sufficient to mainly final for a number of years on bumpy roads. It is that is not clear. A few of them have been failing at a a lot larger price than can be acceptable to a client #1 #2. I do imagine that each one the. Many of the present LIDAR applied sciences on the market will hopefully die, and I feel what is going to find yourself being current is mainly optical. What are they referred to as? Optical semiconductor know-how mainly. All of the know-how required mainly will probably be in a single semiconductor CMOS chip if you’ll. And with 0 fibers. And due to this fact that may very well be very low-cost to fabricate, very compact, very good kind elements and so forth. And the fee will find yourself most likely being of the order of some 100 bucks. We’re speaking 300 4 $100. That is the worth. Is when issues truly turn out to be very, very enticing. Thanks.

Dan Levy

OK. Very attention-grabbing, very topical, particularly given the the, the, the funding, the, the, the, the dialogue throughout the funding debate. OK, let’s pivot to our second dialogue matter and the second matter is will there be scalable and worthwhile? Ava’s for private possession within the subsequent 10 years, we have seen, you recognize, a whole lot of pushes on this entrance, you. Know we have we have heard about. EM, you recognize, providing client AV’s, clearly we simply talked about Tesla, however that is clearly client software, cell eye, one other entry within the area, they’re they’re speaking about client functions. So go forward Brad, you’ve 3 minutes to offer some content material, some colour on this matter.

Brad Templeton

Properly, truly, despite the fact that I used to be a little bit of a excessive priest of that for a very long time, I’ve moderated my view on that. I I do not assume that the patron full self driving robo automobiles I name it’s a tremendous viable product within the early days. However I feel is viable, will probably be a automobile that may drive the foremost roads, you recognize, not the lengthy tail. Mainly, the highways, the arterial roads that the commuter can take the automotive to an arterial after which it will possibly do the job till it will get to the tip of the freeways and arterials. And naturally, we’ve seen Mercedes on the market. In Germany and now in. Nevada, a automotive that may do the complete driving activity on a freeway at visitors jam speeds. Now, that is a a lot simpler drawback to deal with visitors jam speeds, however they maintain promising that they are going to have a automobile so that you can do autobahn speeds very quickly, and I do not assume it is an excessive amount of of A stretch to counsel that this might generally be accessible. In 10 years and turn out to be mainstream, the topic of our debate, so that could be a viable product. That is one thing folks can pay for. It is a premium product. It’s going to begin in luxurious automobiles and transfer its manner down. Is what Tesla additionally feels it is making. Though Tesla is making an attempt, as I say, to do that Metropolis Road product as properly. So I I feel there will be marketplace for that. The Robo taxi is definitely a better product, despite the fact that it has to drive the entire metropolis streets, which is tough as a result of you possibly can constrain the place it drives to so long as it is commercially viable a taxi. It’s going to solely take you round. Manhattan is a viable product, despite the fact that it has to cope with all of the small streets of. Manhattan, you can’t make a Chevy Tahoe that is solely works at Lake Tahoe. It isn’t a product that anyone would purchase. It is no good to must construct one metropolis at a time. The Robo taxi enterprise could be constructed one metropolis at a time, and that enables it to be a viable, rising enterprise that may be made worthwhile area by worthwhile area, beginning the place there is no snow. For instance, when you do not. Suppose you’ve the flexibility to deal with snow. You possibly can’t promote a automotive throughout the US if it does not have the flexibility to deal with these climate situations on all of the roads that you simply warrant, that it’s going to promote on that really makes it a lot more durable. And it seems that the industrial worth of driving these final that lengthy tail of few streets is not as excessive as we want folks. Principally wish to get their time again from our product like that. It isn’t doing the entire different nice issues it does hopefully present you higher security, nevertheless it’s not doing the flexibility to have a cloud of automobiles that may immediately serve folks and create an entire new model of transportation, which is the the actual long run purpose we’re after with the robots. Truly, so it will possibly occur. I feel it can occur, nevertheless it will not be if persons are imagining it. A automotive that may drive them in all places, what it can do although probably is have the ability to drive brief native distances to park itself in close by parking tons, or stand there, as I name it, or additionally to recharge itself. Automobiles that recharge themselves are literally a really attention-grabbing. Product with a whole lot of penalties for our power system and I feel we may see some nice stuff there.

Dan Levy

Thanks, Brad. Professor Raj Kumar and I feel you recognize you, you famous it in your preliminary feedback, you recognize a push towards the patron facet of it. So please go forward. You could have 3 minutes on this matter.

Raj Rajkumar

So Dan, I presume that is solely concerning the non-public automobile area. Brad touched upon the general public area, which can also be the following query as properly anyway. I’m very bullish concerning the. Non-public automobile area within the sense that. Folks, customers in the present day pay for security packages, eras packages, and quote UN quote automation options like Tremendous Cruise Blue crew. Autopilot, the misnomer, FSD, and so forth, so forth and. Folks purchase the automated emergency braking eras, all these options, so it’s a well-known cash making Enterprise Immediately, proper? And when you mainly add, for instance lidars, much more radars and mainly add some processing functionality, the the driving options features could be considerably enhanced, proper? So Brad stated sure, we should always have the ability to drive on highways, arterial roads, and I do not see any basic drawback mainly having this automobile. Drive down the facet streets as properly. The facet streets. The speeds are decrease and due to this fact the dangers are decrease. And with the LIDAR within the image proper on the image, via cameras and infrared, you possibly can truly see in the dead of night react to it. So I do imagine that the scope of automation performance will maintain growing. So primary that the 2 parts which go hand in hand. One these are each viable. Technically talking, #2, it is financially possible, proper? As a result of we’re earning money off of you are not mainly betting on one thing sooner or later which can haven’t occurred throughout the timeline that you simply’re in search of, proper? So these two parts I feel which truly assist and in the meantime with these autos on the market driving gathering knowledge, gathering expertise, if you need, we will maintain transferring that. Frontier ahead and while you run into educations in the present day that you simply can not cope with the human steps in from the automobile or distant help automotive kicks in, you may very well pay a subscription payment for that service. Or in case you are within the automobile, you’re taking over, you are not paying consideration, however when the automobile requires assist. You mainly step in and cope with the scenario and as we be taught increasingly, we mainly maintain increasing the frontier. And one tremendous day we’ll attain what we what I name full secure autonomy, not full autonomy or full secure autonomy. Aviation is the most secure mode of transportation in the present day, primarily as a result of planes. Refused to take off and the climate is unhealthy. They refuse to land and the climate is unhealthy, proper? These are very basic examples that the FAA has been has put in place for a really very long time. The identical factor will occur. The automobile the autonomous automobile will truly be self conscious. To talk now that in these situations it isn’t secure for me to drive, and due to this fact I cannot drive the human can take over, or I’ll pull, pull out to the facet and cease in order that full secure autonomy. I feel that is truly going to be the viable piece of deployment and that I imagine it can occur within the subsequent 10 years.

Dan Levy

OK. So clear alternatives on the non-public or or client facet, Brad, perhaps you want to offer a bit additional colour on the subject.

Brad Templeton

Yeah, truly I used to be a bit confused, Raj. Whether or not you meant that we’d get automobiles which you did not have to take a look at the highway in any respect, even on metropolis streets, which implies you have constructed and solved the robotaxi drawback. And so I feel you are manner forward or when you had been speaking about Adas the place it’s a must to watch which in fact is, I do not assume I’ve tried it. I’ve the Tesla FSD, it isn’t a nice product to make use of, I do not assume. The product that individuals truly wish to use, there are some folks, however lots of people will not Stage 3. I I by no means use these ranges, they do not truly exist, however a automotive that the driving force is in there and he has to take over with a, you recognize, 10 to twenty seconds warning. There’s quite a few individuals who’ve carried out exams on that. We did them at. The pre Waymo and we discovered it to not be a secure factor that you can not assure that individuals would are available and do this throughout the period of time. Often they’d do it more often than not, however often they’d not, and so many individuals have stated that that’s not a superb. Prefer to make and in order that’s why I do not assume it is all that commercially viable. I feel that doing ADS on metropolis streets the place the automotive can immediately flip and it’s a must to be on the look ahead to that and know whether or not you agree with it or not, I do not assume that is a nice factor to drive with. And as an disagreeable factor to drive with. It will not be that commercially viable.

Dan Levy

Nice. Thanks, Raj. Would you want to reply one minute?

Raj Rajkumar

Positive. Thanks, Dan. With respect to that concern of response time, response time from people. So Brad, I agree with you that we should always not count on the human to regain consideration inside 1020 seconds. Take over to the proper factor. So I do imagine that the automobile itself will mainly be conservative after which it probably. Convey the automobile to a secure state. Very gradual pace and even to a cease. Earlier than the people, assistants will probably be engaged, and in the meantime it turns the flashes so on and so forth. I don’t I hear the outcomes from Google. I do not assume that is the best way I might formulate it. Talking as a professor. So so to me I might mainly say the automobile takes the automobile to a secure state and the human jumps in after that may very well be two minutes later however. In order that we will, Selena. Security with respect to the degrees, if you’ll. I feel folks within the viewers have to know this gorgeous a lot all automotive makers on the market have just about given up hope on quote UN quote, degree 5, degree 4 plus and so forth. They’re taking a look at, hey, let’s carry to the market degree 2, Stage 3, I assume I do not like the degrees like Brad that is not degree 2, Stage 3 options is mainly what they’re specializing in. That just about tells you the place the cash is and the place the know-how is. Thanks.

Dan Levy

Thanks, Professor Rajkumar and I, I might usually agree. In case you have a look at the commentary from the automakers, aside from Tesla, there’s actually nobody else that is speaking about full autonomy. You understand, perhaps it is via a JV or an entity like Cruise, however in any other case the push has been to scalable options. From the automaker, so only a query of how precisely that is rolled out to customers, OK, so.

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Dan Levy

The private possession. Aspect the opposite facet of that is the industrial use case will scalable and worthwhile autonomous strive for industrial use instances be accessible within the subsequent 10 years. I feel we have seen this in a wide range of settings, essentially the most notable one is the robo taxi lead strategy. We have heard concerning the concept of autonomous pods corporations like Neuro. And even trucking. You understand, corporations similar to Waymo, Aurora, which does each. So there’s a wide range of industrial use instances. Brad, I invite you to offer your views. You could have 3 minutes.

Brad Templeton

Yeah, properly, in fact I did spend a little bit of my early time on the robo taxi and I imagine that’s the place the best industrial worth lies, as a result of when you make a profitable robo taxi enterprise, that will get folks to resolve, as New Yorkers do, 75% of New Yorkers don’t personal automobiles as a result of they discover appropriate different transportation and they’re Individuals. Folks say Individuals won’t ever. Hand over their automobiles. If you may make that occur, you personal the entire worth chain. You are promoting them the automotive, you are promoting the insurance coverage, the parking, all the pieces concerning the power, in fact. The whole lot about automotive goes via you and that is a really profitable and good place to be. It is what has attracted lots of people into moving into that area. Now the opposite industrial area is frankly we’re seeing fairly a little bit of a downturn in trucking. Yesterday, we noticed Waymo declare that they’d maintain again their trucking efforts, focus solely on the robo taxi we noticed. Two easy shut down its operations in the US. We additionally noticed, nevertheless, Aurora, which is run by Chris Urmson, who led the Waymo staff for a lot of its life. Obtain an additional $800 million in funding they raised in non-public placement and within the public markets, so there’s clearly not full doom and gloom about lengthy haul trucking. Nevertheless, the rationale lengthy haul trucking has run into some suspicion is that despite the fact that driving on the freeway is a a lot simpler drawback than driving on town streets and due to this fact you possibly can really feel extra assured. About how dependable your automobile will probably be, the kinetic power is in fact many instances larger and so the one mistake you’ll have will probably be a mistake of rather more extreme penalties. You even have individuals who ask concerning the employment concern. It does not turn into actual. There may be such a scarcity of truck drivers on the market that nobody’s going to lose their job to a robotic for a lot of, a few years. To come back when it comes from monitoring automation, however that is scaring folks away from monitoring. A bit now supply although, will not be so Gothic is an organization which is now working empty vehicles, delivering issues between warehouses in Toronto, and for Walmart in Arkansas, and so they’re increasing their service. These are occurring daily. It is a actual factor. It is a industrial operation. They’re getting cash for it and so they assume the center mile of trucking is the place they’re going to discover a profitable factor. On journey is from Sweden can also be specializing in electrifying vehicles via the usage of distant driving and and and automation. And they’re getting cash and having success. So the lengthy haul trucking half is seeing issues. However the robo taxi continues to be the place I feel you may see it. And we additionally talked about in fact the freeway automobiles. I truly assume automotive supply is an attention-grabbing enterprise. That is like automobiles that come to you, however then you definitely drive them could be truly very good technique to do automotive share in comparison with having to trundle via city to discover a automotive in a automotive sharing lot. And I feel self charging. It is a very attention-grabbing answer to the charging infrastructure drawback everybody says, how are we gonna cost our automobiles if the automobiles can slink off late at night time, empty streets 2 miles? You understand, a bit two mile journeys. So your automotive is simply routinely, magically charged. You do not even know. What occurs? That is significantly better than gasoline. So it is truly a wonderful answer to our massive electrification issues.

Dan Levy

Thanks. And it is it is an attention-grabbing remark that you simply make on trucking as a result of when you rewind the narrative 2 years in the past, trucking in lots of. Instances was considered to be. Truly, the primary anticipated to be. The primary to scale, and now that is that is flip. Professor Raj Kumar, please. I invite you to offer your views on this. You could have 3 minutes.

Raj Rajkumar

Thanks, Dan. I take into consideration 3 particular sectors, Robo taxis that Brad may be very bullish about, autonomous shuttles that go a set route. And the third, in fact, is autonomous trucking. So on the robotic taxi entrance, I feel there are two impartial. So deep issues happening, one is that the know-how needs to be custom-made, if you’ll, maps, maps and so forth do a whole lot of testing in several areas. After all it takes an enormous quantity of assets to try this. Any any explicit metropolis, Phoenix, Austin and so forth and so forth. It is an enormous funding and due to this fact. The managers, the enterprise folks, search for a return on the cash, proper? In order that’s the place the difficulty is. When will that return truly occur? Proper now it isn’t occurring, proper. And when you have a look at the numbers from UK? Million Uber drivers within the US I imagine, proper. If every autonomous automobile mainly prices a minimum of $100,000, it is most likely extra $100,000 * 1,000,000 is mainly 100 100 billion brats to remark is that we do not want 1,000,000 automobiles to mainly make the enterprise viable that deploy to solely a small variety of cities. And such. However it’s good to mainly have that scale begin earning money. The code growth staff stays the identical. The testing staff stays the identical, however then you definitely’re in a position to mainly scale after which the dimensions is mainly the place the cash retains pouring in with none cash being spent. And that is the place the enterprise turns into worthwhile. So I feel that is a basic enterprise stress. If you’re the place to to not transfer. To a brand new metropolis. You must mainly do extra growth, extra testing and so forth and so forth. So the the robotaxi mannequin will not be organically scalable area drawback or with respect to autonomous shuttle. However in the present day, the legal guidelines don’t permit drivers to be taken away from the automobile and through which case you mainly have a shuttle with all of the sensing processing parts in them, and also you mainly have a human driver supervising the driving. It mainly turns into financially not so enticing. You even have the automobile, which is pricey. And the human. So I assume it stays to be seen how that performs out. Corporations like mobility with respect to monitoring model and I on the identical web page looks as if a less complicated drawback, nevertheless it’s at larger speeds and the load the kinetic power is way, a lot larger. So within the very first accident truly occurs, how will society react? How will the regulatory infrastructure? Jack to be seen, proper. In order that goes again to all the sting instances that may occur in reality. First, crashes forward. Particles on the highway, sudden unhealthy climate, icy highway situations, slippery oil on the roads and such, and so forth. After which when issues go improper up with, there will be a whole lot of second guessing armchair quarterbacking and so forth. In order that must be performed itself out, proper? So a rustic like China, most likely as a bonus that they may mainly mandate some issues. To occur or not occur when you so I am much less gung ho as a result of the dangers are larger. There is no human within the truck or in within the automobile, and due to this fact there causes issues. Thanks.

Dan Levy

OK, nice. Thanks, Professor Rajkumar. So within the curiosity of time, we will skip the rebuttal part to to this. I feel you recognize you are you are each considerably on the identical web page. Is only a query of infrastructure scalability etcetera.

Brad Templeton

I I wanna. I wanna cheat although and use that point for one factor, as I utterly forgot to say one thing fairly vital. The corporate I helped construct referred to as Starship. Which has carried out 5,000,000 autonomous deliveries through the use of a less complicated drawback on the sidewalk. I might say it is doing autonomous automobile supply in the present day and nearly would classify as mainstream in 2023. So I simply received the controversy, however that was a folks will argue, in fact, the place the sidewalk is the actual factor or not. However I simply needed to. I might forgotten to say that. And I really feel very remiss as a result of it is. One in all my very own corporations.

Dan Levy

Nice, nice. OK. OK, properly, let’s, let’s wrap up Brad and Professor Rajkumar. You every have two minutes to offer your closing statements. So, Brad, please go forward.

Brad Templeton

I all the time must go first, which is in fact undoubtedly the improper place within the debate. However Rogers mainly stated that it is too arduous and. Costly, and that is why he is skeptical about it turning into mainstream inside 10 years. It’s not a activity for strange buyers and VC’s. It’s a activity for folks like Larry Web page, who he talked about billionaires who’ve the need to make issues occur. However they do have that may, and Jeff Bezos and varied others, Apple, all these corporations are getting on this sport. These are the businesses with the imaginative and prescient to make that occur. These pilots are right here, they are going, they are going very robust. We will see them resolve the issues and robo taxis and supply and the opposite issues that we talked about, they’re they’re. They’re simply not intractable so far as anybody can say. And I even would query anybody who desires to make a prediction. They’re intractable in the present day, which Raj didn’t. However I do run into individuals who imagine that if you may make this occur. And you may make it in order that it, like in New York Metropolis and like many cities of Europe and lots of different locations, you present a service which is viable and may change the automobiles you do get to be within the catbird seat of a $5 trillion business, the billions invested to this point are drops within the bucket in comparison with the potential for victory there. Victory will not be assured. None of those buyers. That it’s, nevertheless it’s a properly worthy funding and we’ve, as I discussed, corporations like Google, Apple, Baidu, Amazon, Common Motors, the largest and strongest corporations and among the most ahead pondering corporations on this planet are those going after it. And the Chinese language are going after it like loopy. We do not see what is going on on in China. However when you’ve been impressed by what’s in the US, there are even larger. Scale issues happening there. I feel the tech nonetheless a bit higher in Waymo, however these Chinese language corporations are very spectacular. The general public truly goes to like this. Everybody thinks they’re going to worry it, however each time we see what occurs while you put members of the general public into one in all these autos, they belief it an excessive amount of. Frankly, inside a really brief period of time, they’re making an attempt to determine extra they will do with it than they’re speculated to. I do not assume we’re gonna have any issue in getting numerous folks to pay for these companies after they’re accessible. And produce the mainstream within the subsequent 10 years. It is coming and it is going. To alter the world.

Dan Levy

OK. Thanks, Brad presser. Raj Kumar, please. You could have two minutes along with your closing assertion.

Raj Rajkumar

I assume simply to reiterate why I stated earlier, I’m a robust believer in how automation related autonomy with infrastructure assist will truly remodel transportation as we all know it. However we’d like time. We’re the issue. Area may be very, very advanced and with time we’ll truly conquer it. And they’re tractable. However it’s a query of time, proper? So do not over promise and beneath ship you already price a whole lot of disappointment and many folks if you’ll. We needs to be cautious going going for. As I stated, client autos can truly incorporate cameras, radars, and lidars have to turn out to be extra sturdy, even cheaper, after which allow them to drive on highways. Arterial roads. Finally the smaller roads, and so forth and so forth maintain gathering increasingly knowledge do over their updates. And extra time they are going to truly do. Who’re larger and higher issues? Extra, enhance extra enhancements and due to this fact that is how we mainly get full save atonomy the place the automobile says I can drive right here. Let me do the driving. I can not drive beneath these situations. I cannot drive you. Human drive. I’ll cease. Proper. So that may occur inside 10 years is my my premise and. With the opposite domains, if you’ll robotic entry and so forth and so forth, these instances will occur. And since there is no such thing as a human within the loop, if you’ll. Help groups coming in and rescuing the overheads are manner too excessive and due to this fact the enterprise facet mainly begins to fall, begins to disintegrate. In order that’s actually my premise. In case you Brad made a remark about China, I do are inclined to agree, China being totally different administrative construction and so forth. They really have a number of cash as properly. Tons and many gifted people. We within the US and Europe needs to be very cognizant of that. They might find yourself consuming our lunch, so due to this fact I imagine States and the federal government companies and so forth needs to be investing extra. Within the area, not anticipate the enterprise funding facet, the VC facet to mainly step in. They have been dissatisfied with all of the hype and the supply not occurring, so due to this fact we needs to be cautious when you as a result of it may find yourself being winner takes all in a multi trillion greenback per per 12 months market. I I do imagine that I do agree with Brad that. The silent the silent majority is ready for. The demonstration of security in these autos that really occurs, the silent majority will undertake the autos. The skeptical minority will ultimately come over. And in the meantime, as a result of there are early adopters for any know-how and so forth and so forth, so that’s undoubtedly hope on the worth. Little actually talking, I assume all these corporations, Amazon and GM. To see even we had been spending tons and many {dollars}. Simply we’ve a number of {dollars} if you need. It’s not in any respect apparent that degree of funding can proceed with out the revenues coming in with out the income coming in.

Dan Levy

OK. Thanks a lot, Professor. Raj Kumar and thanks Brad. Very insightful debate, very enlightening. I feel shedding facet on each side and and I feel to me actually a query of simply how can we handle. There’s been clear progress, how can we handle expectations going ahead. So with that I will hand the. And Mike, again to you.

Amar Pradhan

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