{"id":8909,"date":"2026-06-07T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8909"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T22:40:42","slug":"cvpr-michael-might-i-remind-you-goliath-is-invulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/07\/cvpr-michael-might-i-remind-you-goliath-is-invulnerable\/","title":{"rendered":"[cvpr]: michael, might i remind you goliath is invulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“I know, KITT, but let’s try to take out his right front tire.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Technically it is possible to swing a stick at CVPR and not hit a self-driving vehicle, but our best VLA robotics foundation models only achieve 38% at this task, and even humans struggle to do it well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictured: Two companies inadvertently creating a classic scene out of Knight Rider, where KITT goes up against Goliath, a truck armored with the same invulnerable material out that KITT is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don’t know. I enjoyed the scene as a kid, but I have a hard time thinking that Goliath would have done well in a collision against a barricade of a dozen or so cement mixer trucks, much less an actual tank, which typically weighs two to three times as much as a fully laden truck. Newton’s a bitch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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