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That's either a very pessimistic view of electric car progress or a very optimistic view of self-driving capabilities. I think electric car revolution will be
by tjoff 8y ago
That's either a very pessimistic view of electric car progress or a very optimistic view of self-driving capabilities.
I think electric car revolution will be at least two decades earlier than self-driving.
As far as electric goes we are starting to reap benefits of vast investment in better tech, manufacturing and vehicles purpose built for it.
Self-driving is very far away and the best publicly available systems only do slightly more than lane-assist, the by far simplest part of self-driving.
- mattferderer 8y agoThe earliest electric cars I noticed on the streets were glorified golf carts. They were ideal for very short distances, like getting to work & running errands. Couldn't self driving cars in the very near future follow this same path? Find a very densely populated area. Get self driving cars to work very well in that area for short trips. Slowly expand to similar areas? I haven't followed either of these very closely, so please correct me where I'm wrong.
- adrianN 8y agoThat's kind of where self driving busses go. The first prototypes run short routes on aiports or something like that. But I don't think that short routes on normal streets are significantly easier than long routes on normal streets.