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Self-Driving Ubers of the Future Will Deliver Stuff, Not People
- lm28469 7y ago> “We’re close to cracking that human performance barrier and reaching superhuman territory,” said Vogt at the Origin reveal event. “That’s going to happen soon.” De people really still fall for this shit ? "yeah yeah guys, we'll be done with that impossible task in like 6 months, just sign here. What do you mean by 'you've been saying that for years ?', I promise we just need 500 millions this time and we're done"
- smt88 7y ago> > We’re close to cracking that human performance barrier and reaching superhuman territory What if we modify that with the following: "...for certain routes"? Even if SDCs can only drive on highways, they're a society-changing service. If they can drive on most highways and 20% of city roads, they'd also be massive. Uber has something of a head start. If it knows your start and end points, it can decide if a full SDC is appropriate or if a human driver is necessary, and then it can send you the right one. This is even better if the passenger is, as the article says, an object, and not a person who can have driver preferences.