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i'm not sure what uber's intention was, but there's a silver lining: 1) The barrier to entry in this space is somewhat low and now it's higher. Within 4 months

i'm not sure what uber's intention was, but there's a silver lining: 1) The barrier to entry in this space is somewhat low and now it's higher. Within 4 months, a small talented group can build a decent self-driving system from scratch. The DMV's action might have a (slight) chilling affect on small self-driving car operations, and gives (a small) advantage to big operations like Uber. 2) If uber thought their launch was a failure (maybe the supervisors had to intervene too often), scuttling the launch in this way buys them some time to incorporate the lessons they learned from their brief foray.

jayjay71 10y ago
"Within 4 months, a small talented group can build a decent self-driving system from scratch." What makes you think that? It's a lot more work than that. For starters, self-driving cars still aren't a commercial reality despite decades of research and many many millions of dollars in funding. I've never heard of a team build anything other than a super limited prototype in that time frame - nothing anyone would reasonably call a self-driving car.