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Is there any (non-PR) advantage of driving around with a passenger as well as a backup-driver?

• IanCal 10y ago
  Feedback from users, a measure of how comfortable people are with the idea, and if people are OK with it, then spreading the idea of driverless cars being safe and normal (which I consider differently to PR, but feel free to ignore it). You also ensure that you're taking the same type and length of trips at the same time of day as you otherwise would be. You now also don't need an extra car. Instead of one car taking passengers and one gathering data, you only need a single car doing both. So it's cheaper and you get more information, as well as more accurate information from it.
• Zigurd 10y ago
  If you look around the internet at objections to self-driving cars, many of those objections are based on fear. So finding out if self driving cars actually scare people is probably a good thing. Even if they don't outright scare people, the behavior of a self-driving car will be different, and maybe some of those differences are unpleasant for riders.
  • kmonsen 10y ago
    Once there are uber rides for half price if self driving, it is going to change a lot of opinions.