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Quite wonderful reply. <Very often in those markets, one actor controls a key level, protected by.. Any writings on who these actors in different markets? cl

Quite wonderful reply. <Very often in those markets, one actor controls a key level, protected by.. Any writings on who these actors in different markets? clothing? retail? shipping? whatever? <Once cars drive themselves, it stops making economical sense to own one Driving is so much fun. Do you ever think they will have laws reducing the driver-cars? Like HOV but for NDV? So.. when you get into a house you no longer need a landline 'cause of cellular phones. Does this mean when you get into a house you no longer need to own a car? Do you really think this will happen? Another observation. reporting of deaths. Now, whenever a passenger plane crashes, it becomes top of search news. "We Interrupt this broadcast" historical procedures. Same for bad rail accidents. Yet with automobile accidents, there are over 30k each year on our highways. Not "interrupt this broadcast" or top of search news. [some, but the weather chair reactions or extreme pileups]. It is even hard to find news about the death near your home highway at times. But, anytime a driverless car is involved in an accident, especially a death, we can expect them to be top of search results and lead news story. It is new. It will be years before an accident with a driverless car becomes so routine it does not make news. Tons of news sites need fodder. A driverless accident is perfect food for clicks and genuine interest. <deliver one on your front door 10 minutes after you summoned it with your smartphone I thought about this. Okay, I will not trust anybody to be better than me when I drive in a snow storm. Several months I HAVE to go to work. I really doubt I will take a driverless car especially because I know how crazy other drivers are and I know the idiosyncrisies of the trek I take 530 times a year. Thus, I will have to own a car. It will make economic sense.

fab13n 10y ago
> Driving is so much fun. So is horse-riding, and some people still own personal horses. But most people don't, and those who do ride for fun, not for transportation. They take their car to go and ride their horse actually. Because horses are comparatively impractical. When autonomous cars will be mainstream enough, there won't be any traffic jams in autonomous-only lanes (yes of course it will be a thing), contrary to those allowed to legacy cars. Also, fleet cars won't park, so the pressure to reclaim parking space in the cities will become enormous, and parking your personal car will become as hard as feeding your horses while shopping at Walmart. Human-driven cars will become as impractical compared to fleet cars as horses are compared to cars today. > reporting of deaths It's hard to predict which deaths remain newsworthy, and I don't feel like I can. However, I suspect that crashes between two autonomous cars will be very rare, compared to human driven vs. autonomous car crashes. And the primate-operated vehicle will be blamed, probably rightly. Musk considers he needs autonomous cars to be 10x safer than legacy ones, in order to overcome this effect, and expects to reach that level in a couple of years (he wrote that's when he'll remove the "beta" qualifier on his auto-pilot). > when I drive in a snow storm. Tesla's radars see perfectly well in the worse snowstorms, you don't. The car has reflexes orders of magnitude faster than yours, a direct connection to ABS sensors, etc. As of today, Tesla cars monitor their human drivers in every driving conditions, compares it to what the autopilot would have done, and whenever a discrepancy occurs, it sends a report over GSM to Tesla's engineering teams. That's how they improve their autopilot. As soon as you drive one you're teaching every car to drive better than you in pathological conditions :-)

fab13n 10y ago

> Driving is so much fun. So is horse-riding, and some people still own personal horses. But most people don't, and those who do ride for fun, not for transportation. They take their car to go and ride their horse actually. Because horses are comparatively impractical. When autonomous cars will be mainstream enough, there won't be any traffic jams in autonomous-only lanes (yes of course it will be a thing), contrary to those allowed to legacy cars. Also, fleet cars won't park, so the pressure to reclaim parking space in the cities will become enormous, and parking your personal car will become as hard as feeding your horses while shopping at Walmart. Human-driven cars will become as impractical compared to fleet cars as horses are compared to cars today. > reporting of deaths It's hard to predict which deaths remain newsworthy, and I don't feel like I can. However, I suspect that crashes between two autonomous cars will be very rare, compared to human driven vs. autonomous car crashes. And the primate-operated vehicle will be blamed, probably rightly. Musk considers he needs autonomous cars to be 10x safer than legacy ones, in order to overcome this effect, and expects to reach that level in a couple of years (he wrote that's when he'll remove the "beta" qualifier on his auto-pilot). > when I drive in a snow storm. Tesla's radars see perfectly well in the worse snowstorms, you don't. The car has reflexes orders of magnitude faster than yours, a direct connection to ABS sensors, etc. As of today, Tesla cars monitor their human drivers in every driving conditions, compares it to what the autopilot would have done, and whenever a discrepancy occurs, it sends a report over GSM to Tesla's engineering teams. That's how they improve their autopilot. As soon as you drive one you're teaching every car to drive better than you in pathological conditions :-)