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Robotaxis will quickly become highly durable (well, maintenance become cheap), since for the first time incentives mostly align. The car will be produced and ma

• toss1 7y ago
  >>Especially regarding safety, Yes, that's a big one, and indeed may be setting up a commons problem, if not strongly regulated. For the short term, and for each individual company, cutting corners for safety will be in their interest (save funds now at no cost). But for the industry and the long term, the entire concept could be destroyed by a relatively small but tragic number of safety failures. A few high-profile passenger deaths will probably be covered in the volume of terrorist attacks, and even if the actual risk is still small, give the impression of horrible widespread risk. I'd like to hope that all the players are responsible and far-sighted, but the experience with Uber killing the cyclist in Arizona does not bode well -- they had many lapses and corner cutting, only reforming a bit when they killed someone.