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> The additional hardware and software will be expensive as hell to develop, but once it's invented, the marginal cost should be fairly cheap compared to the pr
by monkmartinez 10y ago
> The additional hardware and software will be expensive as hell to develop, but once it's invented, the marginal cost should be fairly cheap compared to the price of a car.
Go talk to a pilot and ask them about Garmin products and the autopilot of their plane. Also ask them about update the software on these devices. Ask how much money they are asked to fork over for software...
Have a look at the self-driving tech of the John Deere tractors and how well that has gone for the farmers. I don't think the bulk of people here have really thought about this in a negative light.
- rhino369 10y agoYet its cheap enough that every commercial plane has it and every tractor has it. Sure they'll try to take their pound of flesh but not to the extent it would make the products affordable.
- monkmartinez 10y agoAre you serious with this reply? It is obvious that you do not know very much about the cost of these systems. It is pointless to continue.
- Qwertious 10y agoHow many 747s et al are there, in total, in the world though? According to http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/584144.html http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/584144.html AIUI, about 300,000. For the entire world. There's more than that number of cars in just about any city in the world. I'd expect tens or hundreds of millions of cars. Aeroplanes aren't even close to the scale we're talking about.