Posted on 09/18/2017 10:53:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
CNBC reports Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is spinning out graduates earning $200,000 to work in the rapidly growing field of self-driving cars.
Pittsburgh has become America's unofficial self-driving car research capital. At least four companies in the autonomous vehicle business, including Uber, have set up offices in the city; they've been testing its self-driving cars on Pittsburgh's streets since 2016.
Andrew Moore, the dean of Carnegie Mellon's computer science school, said that graduates of its computer vision program are getting job offers from these firms with pay packages of upwards of $200,000 right out of school. It's a situation that's "unheard of for any role until recently," Moore said.
"It does feel very much like a gold rush town at the moment," he added.....
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Dittos:
“Don’t get me wrong—I would love my car to drive me around town when I am in my nineties.”
“I just don’t want to get run over by one of these things before I get to that point!”
The problem with “self driving” cars is that they will be prohibitively expensive. Any minor accident will be cause for a products liabilty case.
The up front cost for product insurance will make impossible to market these vehicles to the general public.
The first time one of them is involved in a fatal accident may be the end of the company that made it.
It’s a dream that will either never come true or it will turn into a nightmare.
Are their music majors getting hired as Tech bosses?
Self driving cars? I don’t think so. In 10-20 years you’re going to get in your car, and tell it where to go while you sit back and read a book. The technology exists. Its just a matter of time.
ain’t happening. I can’t read when driving. Get really car sick.
Amazon was a gold rush Company with stock selling for a few dollars 20 years ago.
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Only if you don’t consider the splits in the stock price since then.
I wish I would have bought shares when Henry Blodget said the stock was going to $400 and held on to it. It would be great to go back and see all the wise ass comments FReepers were making about Amazon at the time.
I made $16.5 selling cable TV door to door.
Hell, that wasn’t bad out of college in the late 70s.
“How long before these “Gold Rush” graduates are proudly training their H1-B replacements?”
If the telecom industry is any guide, about 15 years ... there was a lot of innovation from around 1990 up until 2000 ... from 2000-2005, innovation deflated and H1B abuse started. These days, it is basically a commodity industry (for the most part ... there are a few sectors in the industry that are exceptions, but, for the most part, the industry is nothing but scaling existing designs up).
I work in the computer vision field. It is a GREAT time to be alive :-) ... I’m hoping this wave gets me to age 60 w/o many headaches and lots of good times in between :-). I LOVE challenges like the ones we face and don’t really want to retire.
Moreover, I’d *really* like the money cited in this article (though I mainly work in the hardware acceleration side of things ... the $200K graduates are mainly PhDs and MS students with some remarkable accomplishments in the field ... and they’re freakishly drown in reality ... not very common among recent graduates :-) ).
Just post a story about bitcoin.
The comments are the same. The posters are just older...so they’re ornery.
You must live in F*CKIN HOLLYWOOD. That's the only F*CKIN place where this F*CKIN addictive is F*CKIN popular.
GROW UP! If you're gping to write something, use your GOD given intelligence!
Not HOLLYWOOD low life, scum bag, low intelligence, language!
addictive= adjective
Electric cars don’t go very well without electricity. During a Natural Disaster Electricity is sometimes hard to find..
Looking at 70 next year, the self-driving cars are beginning to interest me. :)
Oops wrong post..
Everyone will have solar panels and windmills on their houses, silly.
"How long before these 'Gold Rush' graduates are proudly training their H1-B replacements?"
Ding! Ding! Ding! - We have a winner!
My guess is the top technical universities in India are already aggressively working on a computer vision curriculum.
Colleges oversell these programs and graduates end up disappointed. I got an industrial engineering degree in 1988 and the college had all kinds of rosy predictions about how easy it would be to get a job and how much it would pay. No one that I graduated with found a job paying what the school said we would make. I’m not sure if the graduates of the philosophy courses and the women’s study programs had the same problem, though.
Regardless of whether driverless automobile industry is widly accepted, these graduates will continue to be in demand. Their field is robotics and artificial intelligence. CMU has been a leader in robotics for decades.
I can give you the main reason. Reason number one is there is no such thing and never will be such a thing as a "self driving car". There will be someone/s driving the car, it just won't be YOU.
For the reason above, free people will never want a car that is ultimately controlled by someone else. The solution to those situations where one can't drive was solved a long time ago. it's called a cab.
Last week I studied the history of Amazon’s stock.
I really need a time machine to go back to 1997 when at one point it was selling at 2.30 or so a share.
The stock has split three times with the second being a three for one.
997.00 a share these days. Astounding.
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