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These kinds of articles continue to pop on hacker news. At the end of the day won't most delivery companies go under when Google (fill in: whoever) brings the s
by sna1l 11y ago
These kinds of articles continue to pop on hacker news. At the end of the day won't most delivery companies go under when Google (fill in: whoever) brings the self driving car to a mass market and develops their own delivery service?
What will differentiate Postmates from Doordash from Eat24? Google might just sell these cars to these services but I feel like it is too lucrative for them not to develop their own service
- Apocryphon 11y agoSelf-driving cars are inevitable, but concerning that day and hour no one knows. Not only will the tech have to be foolproof, but the product consumer ready, and the legislation in place as well. Even if it's moving fast now, it'll take at least a decade or half to be ready.
- sna1l 11y agoI don't know about that. Tesla, Mercedes, etc all have some sort of self driving capability already on the market and are expanding the capabilities pretty rapidly. I agree that completely self driving cars won't be ready for over a decade most likely. But plunking a person down to sit in a car that can drive itself for 95% of the time will greatly reduce the amount of money you will have to pay said driver.
- ghaff 11y ago>But plunking a person down to sit in a car that can drive itself for 95% of the time will greatly reduce the amount of money you will have to pay said driver. Really? It's not like you're replacing a high skill/high wage person with a seat warmer. You're replacing a roughly minimum wage driver with... a driver who doesn't need to drive as much (but, for the time being at least, doesn't need to drive as much in a more expensive car). Why on earth would that reduce the amount of money you have to pay?