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The main draw for me is saving time by not needing to drive. It is currently luxury to have own chauffeur so that one can focus on more interesting things than
by bitL 9y ago
The main draw for me is saving time by not needing to drive. It is currently luxury to have own chauffeur so that one can focus on more interesting things than to keep attention on the road during daily commute. Mass transit allows this but it doesn't really allow you to fully focus on something else while you are traveling.
And from engineering perspective, it's absolutely awesome to work on it, I wish everybody could experience the feeling when a self-driving car you programmed makes its first drive on its own (I have experienced it).
Ethical risks are real though, both about who is responsible in case of fatality as well as what if the technology is going to be abused for military purposes (I already rejected to lead self-driving part of an off-road military vehicle in the past).