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Uber, and I imagine Lyft, are banking on automation. So what is sustainability? Self driving vehicles, at scale, could profitably provide service for a lower co
by indubitable 9y ago
Uber, and I imagine Lyft, are banking on automation. So what is sustainability? Self driving vehicles, at scale, could profitably provide service for a lower cost per mile than a person who owns their own vehicle. And that industry is going to have incredibly rapid growth likely culminating in a monopoly that could yield the largest company in existence. We drive in the ballpark of ~300billion miles per month [1]. Consider the worldwide market. A profit of even just a few cents a mile starts to look very insane very fast.
[1] - https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/travel_monitoring/tvt.cfm https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/travel_monitoring...
- hueving 9y agoSustainability is having a business that doesn't depend on a rapid rollout of a technology that doesn't work in weather that most people won't trust for years and that isn't even legal yet.
- indubitable 9y ago- By the time the technology is at the 99.999% level, the game will already be over. - Things are legal by default. If self driving vehicles are not explicitly made illegal by a state, they are legal. - Peoples' trust changes rapidly. I think as a culture we've become much more scared of technology and change, but the change from horses to internal combustion engines and brakes was many magnitudes 'scarier' than having AI manage navigation.