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System worked. Problem was investors have mostly bet on full autonomy, and when that failed to materialized they got scared out of the space. Full autonomy is
by stefan8r 7y ago
System worked. Problem was investors have mostly bet on full autonomy, and when that failed to materialized they got scared out of the space.
Full autonomy isn't necessary. And I don't know if it's even profitable for trucks.
- ozborn 7y agoDoes the current coronavirus pandemic assist you in promoting a teleop model? I'm not sure how much human to human contact there is in the business.
- cosmodisk 7y agoThere are some. Initial pickup, all the pit stops for fuel,food,sleep. The end of the journey,where the recipient may check the delivery and etc.
- stefan8r 7y agoHard to say. Truck drivers will be hit hard by this - they can't really stop interacting with people, almost never get paid time off, are older and in poor health, and are paycheck to paycheck. My bet is that nearly all of them get COVID, with a higher hospitalization / mortality rate. Could knock 30% of capacity off the road in the next 2 quarters, which would mean food shortages.
- redis_mlc 7y ago> investors have mostly bet on full autonomy lol. I used to live on one of the side streets in MV that Google's AV cars trained on. Saw three in a row once. They were usually the only traffic, so that annual report of millions of miles travelled was meaningless - they might as well have driven arounf the Safeway parking lot at 5 am. I guess passenger-carrying quadcopters is next. Oh wait ...
- stefan8r 7y agoI live next to the weird intersection at Duboce Park. I see a Cruise car go by it every 30m. A better solution for robotaxis - just avoid the weird intersections.