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You'll never own a robo car, Uber and Lyft and Tesla and GM will.

• jonknee 10y ago
  Why not? It's a technology problem and technology almost magically gets cheaper over time. I don't see why it won't eventually be like all the other required safety features (airbags, ABS, etc). If you live in the middle of SF it might sound silly to own an autonomous vehicle, but if you live out in rural Sonoma County it is going to sound a lot less silly. I frequently go out to the mountains and I doubt I'm going to want to call an Uber to load all my camping gear into and be gone for a week.
  • paulddraper 10y ago
    I live in the suburbs and I go on road trips all the time with the family. About half of my neighbors own RVs. Self-driving vehicles would be a dream come true.
    • ghaff 10y ago
      Furthermore, if it's your own vehicle, fully autonomous mode under certain pre-defined conditions and roads can still be a huge win. But that constraint makes the same vehicles basically uninteresting as a shared vehicle taxi service for the near term. It's great that all this work is being done but IMO summoning Johnny cab to take you home from a bar in SF is decades away.
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