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It seem highly unlikely that they're planning on waiting 20+ years it will take before fully autonomous vehicles are able to reliably navigate busy city streets
by Aloisius 11y ago
It seem highly unlikely that they're planning on waiting 20+ years it will take before fully autonomous vehicles are able to reliably navigate busy city streets and are licensed to do so without a driver behind the wheel.
- prawn 11y agoI don't think it will be 20+ years in their initial, primary markets.
- omouse 11y agoIt'll be less than a decade, people are already talking about replacing trucks with self-driving trucks and there's been lots of research and experimentation with self-driving cars and synchronization. The pieces are slowly falling into place and the key things remaining are the laws need to accommodate autonomous vehicles and larger scale tests need to happen. When the law catches up, insurance companies will have something in place. When there's a large scale test, production/distribution have to ramp up. Even if Uber can replace just 1% of their drivers with self-driving cars it would be worthwhile.