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You're assuming no countering disincentive that would offset those savings. How much will the operators pay for software liability license, so if their truck d
by moxious 10y ago
You're assuming no countering disincentive that would offset those savings. How much will the operators pay for software liability license, so if their truck does crash, someone gets paid out? How much will the annual software updates cost?
These sorts of things get waved off with tech enthusiasm as things that will just somehow get figured out; this leads to a straw man where the real costs of human drivers today are compared against the hypothetical, unknown, but believed to be effectively zero costs of the glittering future.
Not a very fair comparison I'd say, comparing fantasy to reality. We'll see how it shakes out in the years to come.
- agildehaus 10y ago> How much will the operators pay for software liability license, so if their truck does crash, someone gets paid out? Much less than what they're paying now for insurance covering their human drivers. > How much will the annual software updates cost? Less than their human drivers cost, if anything at all.
- moxious 10y agoThese answers are the speculative tech-positive viewpoint that is the conventional wisdom on HN. But since this hasn't happened yet, I think it's important for you to acknowledge that these are projections based on no actual data. They should be afforded an appropriate level of credulity.