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Chris Urmson, co-founder of Aurora and former cto if the Google self driving car project doesn't expect to see autonomous vehicles such as robotaxis scale broad
by Fricken 8y ago
Chris Urmson, co-founder of Aurora and former cto if the Google self driving car project doesn't expect to see autonomous vehicles such as robotaxis scale broadly for 30-50 years. His time frames were a fair but more aggressive a few years ago before he had hit self-driving car puberty.
Autopilot's true believers have yet to recognize the full scope of the problem.
- Gibbon1 8y ago> Autopilot's true believers have yet to recognize the full scope of the problem. Those guys have their head in the sand about autonomous cars effects on congestion.
- ghaff 8y agoWell that’s another issue. I don’t drive into my relatively nearby major city much these days because of traffic (and because it’s nearly an hour in any case). If I could be driven at minimal incremental cost? A whole lot more. And I doubt I’m atypical.
- asdf21 8y agoHe also says you'll see small scale deployments within 5 years.