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I actually had a long discussion about this with an Uber driver the other day. Given that this article predates that discussion, I would imagine he was sourcing

by eric_h 11y ago

I actually had a long discussion about this with an Uber driver the other day. Given that this article predates that discussion, I would imagine he was sourcing a lot of his arguments from this article. My position in this discussion is that yes, infrastructure improvements are necessary, but they'll be relatively straight forward in the US, as basically every city in the US was designed to support automobile traffic. Self driving cars are going to have a much tougher row to hoe in Europe and Asia, where city infrastructure predates the automobile by centuries/millenia

csydas 11y ago
>My position in this discussion is that yes, infrastructure improvements are necessary, but they'll be relatively straight forward in the US, as basically every city in the US was designed to support automobile traffic. This is not to say that it's impossible, but US cities barely manage to get the infrastructure upgrades and maintenance they need now - Google et. al. have a lot of money, but I'm not confident they can play bureaucracy well enough to get some of the infrastructure improvements necessary for either large fleets of SDC's. I admit, the idea of replacing all the individually owned cars on the road with a fleet of summonable automobiles is very appealing; it just seems like there are a lot of intermediary steps that are less about technology and money than they are about politics and personal interests.