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Valley can start the process by promote the self driving cars only in the silicon valley + SF, similar to how AirBnB and Uber started within a small region. Va
by tkinom 10y ago
Valley can start the process by promote the self driving cars only in the silicon valley + SF, similar to how AirBnB and Uber started within a small region.
Valley has better environment, friendly government/regulation support.
The next version Tesla (in 5 years) might allow the car owner to get to work and auto "uber out" the car to "earn $$$" for the own - start with just Bay Area.
Or Google can
Step 1: Build a few thousand self driving "beta" cars to shuttle only their employees to/from work in year N.
Step 2: Uber out (Guber out) those self driving cars to pickup/drop off anyone in Bay Area, in year N+1.
If the model works for Bay Area, I can see other congested cities will clone it immediately to solve their own traffic problem.
- inthewoods 10y agoI totally agree, but that doesn't mean it's going to happen that fast, or that the public or local governments are not going to be obstacles to these initiatives going forward. Short version: I think the timeline the author has in mind is dramatically faster than it will actually happen. But hey, would love to be wrong.