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Of course they will. It's been billions spent on development to just offer you a slightly cheaper taxi ride, with no clear path to any kind of viable commercial
by gambiting 3y ago
Of course they will. It's been billions spent on development to just offer you a slightly cheaper taxi ride, with no clear path to any kind of viable commercial service beyond "ok-ish" taxi provider in few American cities. Someone will get bored of it eventually and it will get shut down.
- xnx 3y agoNo Way[mo] that it gets shut down. Possibly split off and IPO'ed, but no one is going to throw away technology that is very close to cracking a multi-hundred billion dollar market.
- TillE 3y ago> no clear path The path is building an entire centrally-directed transit network out of custom vehicles. Waymo currently doesn't look anything like that because they're still doing R&D on the critical technology, but if we have good self-driving even in just nice weather, it's very easy to imagine a radical transformation of transit. Of course you can make money on that.
- gambiting 3y ago>> it's very easy to imagine a radical transformation of transit Really? How? Because I don't see it at all, and I don't think it's "very easy" either. All they have created is a very slightly cheaper taxi service. How does that transform anything? You could be taking a taxi instead of driving everywhere right now - why aren't you?(not literally you I mean people in general) Is that going to change if the ride is couple dollars cheaper? Of course not.