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Haha I have the same question. Until self driving cars are common presumably, but I think a lot of people are deluded about how soon that will be.
by pgwhalen 9y ago
Haha I have the same question. Until self driving cars are common presumably, but I think a lot of people are deluded about how soon that will be.
- ghaff 9y agoI'd love to be proven wrong. But, progress made to date notwithstanding, getting to Johnny-cab as commercial service (i.e. door to door in city without a human even present) seems an incredibly high bar to be remotely relevant to a VC's planning horizon.
- arkitaip 9y agoNot sure I would ever want to step inside a Johnny-cab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgrvNHjKkY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgrvNHjKkY
- erikpukinskis 9y agoI think it will be soon because there is a huge number of markets to test in. You have every state in the US, every country in the world, and a dozen players all working on it. In an n*n space, you just need one technology+municipality pair that says "ok, we'll risk it" and you have a very public, newsworthy demonstration. If there are real benefits to the tech, it will be impossible to keep them off Instagram. From there, it will spread to opportunist governments... Places who will try anything if it draws interest to their municipality. At some point after that it becomes a liability to not allow it. Now, how long before each of these stages? I don't know, but there's pressure there.
- kmicklas 9y agoThis explains how self driving will be legalized, not how it will be perfected, and it's not even close yet.
- erikpukinskis 9y agoEach forces the other
- vl 9y agoTesla sells "Full Self-Driving Capability" option for Model X and S on their website right now.