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> they'll have cars driving around empty. > It's a prediction, I can't provide a source for events that haven't occurred. Using the words "they will" makes it
by mbesto 9y ago
> they'll have cars driving around empty.
> It's a prediction, I can't provide a source for events that haven't occurred.
Using the words "they will" makes it sound like an assertion. How are you so confident about "events that haven't occurred" will indeed occur? You listed out reports and demos, none of which necessarily suggest that "Late this year or 2018 they'll have cars driving around empty"? Do you have additional inside information that the rest of us don't have?
> Also, because Kyle Vogt said so, and he's never bullshitted me before, he's got credibility.
Is this a serious comment?
- Fricken 9y agoIf I tell you the sun is going to rise tomorrow morning, I don't actually know it's going to do that until it does. That's kind of the thing about future events, it should go without saying. Nothing you've written is a counter argument. You just used way more words than you need to to say 'I don't believe you'. Yay. My points are that GM is doing well, and that they are scaling up their operation to a degree that wouldn't make sense if they didn't intend to deliver the minimum viable commercial robotaxi service sometime over the next year or so. The counterpoints are that 'this smells like PR bullshit', and that Kyle Vogt is an asshole (because no asshole has ever successfully led a technology company before). You guys have nothing substantiative to argue with.
- mbesto 9y ago> The counterpoints are that 'this smells like PR bullshit', and that Kyle Vogt is an asshole I literally said none of that...