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If the car is self driving there is less need to own a car. Selfdriving taxi will be significantly cheaper than current taxi. A privately operating self drivin
by kailuowang 11y ago
If the car is self driving there is less need to own a car. Selfdriving taxi will be significantly cheaper than current taxi. A privately operating self driving taxi system might be even more economic than building an extensive public transportation system that covers the typical spread-out American cities. It is probably cheaper than owning a car.
- bjacobel 11y agoThis is Uber's vision and the reason they're aggressively poaching roboticists from academia. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/magazine/uber-would-like-to-buy-your-robotics-department.html?referer=&_r=0 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/magazine/uber-would-lik...
- kailuowang 11y agoIt will be really interesting to see who would be the first organization running automated Taxi. I think as long as Google isn't dumb enough to let go its pioneer engineering team members they are still the front runner. The only thing is that they don't have the a manufacturing capability. Now that they poached Tesla's lead engineer in the area, a Tesla - Google join force is actually more likely, Tesla has more need for Google now.