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Every single time there is a big discussion thread about Uber on HN about half the commentary is about self-driving cars and how various decisions are being mad
by CPLX 12y ago
Every single time there is a big discussion thread about Uber on HN about half the commentary is about self-driving cars and how various decisions are being made now based on the inevitability of self driving cars. Every time this happens I always wonder why nobody seems to recognize the obvious fact that self driving cars have nothing to do with any of this stuff and won't make economic sense for a company like Uber in any time horizon that it makes business sense to take into account now.
- ghaff 12y agoAutonomous vehicles seem to set off this distortion field that makes otherwise intelligent people ignore everything they know about the state of any number of technologies and the nature of bringing enormously complex systems from research labs into production. We could probably have autonomous vehicles in a limited way under controlled circumstances like interstates in a decade or so. Though if that's optimistic I wouldn't be surprised given that this would be a feature of $100K luxury cars. Robo taxis? My money is on multiple decades which is utterly uninteresting for a VC funded company today.
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