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The industry’s PR team starting to place stories about why self driving cars will take longer than they promised their investors. Tens of billions of dollars in
by seibelj 7y ago
The industry’s PR team starting to place stories about why self driving cars will take longer than they promised their investors. Tens of billions of dollars invested and it’s still decades away. I guess we blame other drivers now(?)
- TomMarius 7y agoI thought we blamed human drivers all the time up until now? It's human drivers that make the chaos on the road, if everything was driven by a computer the issue would be much easier.
- Recurecur 7y ago"Tens of billions of dollars invested and it’s still decades away." "Decades away"? LOL Fully autonomous vehicles are already on the road in large numbers. See Waymo in AZ and Voyage in Florida... The economic and safety incentives are huge. I predict by 2030 over half of new vehicles sold will have L5 autonomy.
- glogla 7y agoAlso see Uber where they killed a woman, faked evidence (with purposefully making the video look darker) and got away with it.
- mdorazio 7y agoI must have missed the part of vehicular accident law where people hit while jaywalking at night aren't at fault for the accidents. By your logic, the 1000+ jaywalking fatalities every year must all result in human drivers "getting away with it". Uber messed up big time in multiple ways, but legally it's pretty clear that the pedestrian was at fault in this case, not Uber.
- brandmeyer 7y agoI predict that an autonomous car will never be sold as a personally-owned vehicle. The entire point of the industry is to get a continuous revenue stream through taxi services.