I speak with my friend Maroof Farook who is an AI Engineer at Nvidia. [Note: Maroof’s views are his and not that of his employer.] We discuss what’s different about the self-driving approaches of Tesla and Alphabet/Google/Waymo. We cover the phases of autonomous driving, from level 1 to level 5, the capabilities of each phase, and at which phase we can eat a cheeseburger while our car drives itself.  Finally, we discuss why one of the most challenging problems of self-driving cars are stop signs. We laugh. We cry. We iterate. Check out what THE MACHINES and one human are saying about AI CAFE: “I'm sorry, I didn't quite get that.” — Alexa “Not Lex Friedman.” — Siri “Hasta la vista baby.” — T1000 “Like tears in rain.” — Roy Batty “I’m afraid I can’t do that.” — HAL9000 “Wait! Wait! Oh My! What Have You Done? I'm Backwards!” — C3P0 “These are not the droids you are looking for." — Obi-Wan Twitter: @askaicafe Patreon: patreon.com/aicafe