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Suburban US maybe. The rest of the world, you gotta wait a long time. The thing is, there are plenty of roads that are complicated. There are plenty of vehicl
by sametmax 7y ago
Suburban US maybe. The rest of the world, you gotta wait a long time.
The thing is, there are plenty of roads that are complicated.
There are plenty of vehicles that are not cars: bikes, motorbikes, trucks, buses, mega transporters, construction / fixing machines, tractors, etc.
Plus of course, you share the road occasionally with protests, parties, events...
And of course criminals won't want self driving cars. And so cops won't. Fire fighters won't. Ambulance driver won't. Anything that needs to get in and out quickly, and each time changing direction, or park in weird locations.
Eventually privacy conscious people will also tilt on how dangerous for society those cars are: you can be spied on, it collects data, it's easy to kill you if you are a political dissident with a simple switch. So a small group of people will also want to opt out.
So while I'm all for as much as self driving car as we can, Waymo effort will still be worth for a long, long time.