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I expect that self-driving cars will -at least initially- be expensive -in large part- because the sensing and computational hardware on the car is expensive.

• dvdcxn 11y ago
  Once Mass production kicks in the cars will get cheaper and cheaper as the processes to create them does so. When the automobile was first invented it would have seemed implausible for it to be accessible and (relatively) affordable to everyone. Look at where we are now.
  • simoncion 11y ago
    > Once Mass production kicks in the cars will get cheaper and cheaper as the processes to create them does so. Yes, but there is an expected near-to-medium-term price floor on the sorts of good sensing equipment that such cars will require, not to mention certified (and patent-encumbered) software to fuse that data and turn it into useful and safe action. This is stuff that you don't want to cheap out on; it's how the car sees and operates safely!
  • demallien 11y ago
    Cars are still bloody expensive. Many many people make the decision not to buy a car when they live in a city with good public transport. It's only in places like Australia and most of the US where you practically need a car that ownership is ubiquitous. Elsewhere people find that there are better things to spend all of that money on...