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At the same time I'm pretty sure they also commented that self-driving cars might be 30 years away during an event at SXSW this year.
by Bjorkbat 11y ago
At the same time I'm pretty sure they also commented that self-driving cars might be 30 years away during an event at SXSW this year.
- semi-extrinsic 11y agoI really liked the Rolls Royce CEO's comment on their self-driving tech: "Oh, we invented that 111 years ago. We call it a chauffeur." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-01-06/rolls-royce-ceo-record-sales-year-may-spur-suv http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-01-06/rolls-royce-...
- mdorazio 11y agoThe talk by Chris Urmson is often misconstrued like this. The 30 years statement is for when self-driving cars will be able to completely replace human drivers in basically all situations and all locations. This is very different than how long it will take for self-driving cars to replace human drivers in some situations and some locations. Most people in the industry are still expecting self-driving cars to be able to operate on normal roads in CA and some other favorable locations within 5ish years, which makes sense given the current state of the tech. In 6 years Google has gone from no self-driving car at all to many self-driving cars logging over 1.3 million miles with a single minor fenderbender of questionable fault. Given another 5 years to develop the tech, train the software, and expand the corner cases, there's no reason to think you won't be able to hail a robocab in San Jose in 2021.