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True Believer Loses Faith in Fully Self-Driving Cars
- empath75 7y agoThere were a lot of people who bought the Uber ipo believing the bullshit that self driving cars were around the corner and they’d soon be able to get rid of all their drivers.
- IAmEveryone 7y agoThis is a rather spammy article adding nothing to the two articles it's relying on (/stealing from). The WSJ piece is relatively good: https://www.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fself-driving-cars-have-a-problem-safer-human-driven-ones-11560571203 https://www.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.c... (facebook redirect link for paywall reasons)
- IshKebab 7y agoI would have thought this is pretty obvious. Fully self-driving cars are such an impossibly hard problem it makes no sense to try to jump straight there. It's much more logical to start with easier problems, like driver-assist, motorway-only, whitelisted roads, etc.