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What's the point of a technology that only works under the least challenging conditions, that is probably less than one percent of the actual occurring conditio
by shanghaiaway 9y ago
What's the point of a technology that only works under the least challenging conditions, that is probably less than one percent of the actual occurring conditions - and where the current solution, human beings, work better anyway because they don't have to stop for rain?
What you're imagining is a car on a fixed track - a railcar. We already have trains but the US does need to build out their railway, yeah.
- stale2002 9y agoBecause it is not 1% of circumstances. It would be more like 50% of circumstances. There are lots of places where it is sunny, and not raining and it is daytime. Just don't run the trucks on self driving mode during the other times where they don't work, and we could still save up to 50% in labor costs. Obviously, though, the market for self driving taxis is different than for self driving trucks, but once again, we could just only use them for trucks and still save Trillions.