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Right, but there are potentially more efficient ways to go about that. Particularly if you have the buy-in of local governments to instrument their roads for yo
by darawk 7y ago
Right, but there are potentially more efficient ways to go about that. Particularly if you have the buy-in of local governments to instrument their roads for you.
- kevingadd 7y agoTheir current method is pretty efficient - getting the general public to annotate photos to mark stoplights, etc. So they've solved the cost problem by making the entire planet pay the cost for them. I think a company like Google can do this without expecting us to directly pay the price for it. And a truly functional, high level automated driving system with high safety WOULD be highly valuable, so maybe the price is fine? But it's hard to deny that if you look at all the pieces, as a whole, it is a very, very expensive proposition.
- Retric 7y agoCompare the costs of physically building and maintaining roads vs having a sensor equipped vechile drive past them. That’s orders of magnitude cheaper and thus no real impediment. Assuming it’s both needed and people are willing to pay for self driving cars. 4.1 million miles of road in the US vs 263.6 million registered vehicles. Assuming it costs 10$ / mile you could make every road in the US every day for about 60$ / year per car. And that’s with insane cost estimates anything reasonable is going to end up being cheap.