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> It's much easier to make a scooter or a bicycle autonomous than a car.

No it's not. Less stable platform. Exact same issues with obstacle detection and avoiance, path planning and scene understanding with less available power for sensors and compute. Higher relative sensor cost. Fewer closed environments like highways. Added issue of being able to steal them more easily.

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Yo, I'm with that company doing the AV scooters and bikes, and yes it's much easier to nav than a car, we're looking at two magnitudes easier as far as computing power. We won't do autonomous with riders on-board so we can go slow and be conservative. Sensors are more than two orders of magnitude cheaper, we can use ToF laser rangefinders that are close to mobile phone grade.

Where are you testing?

None of those factors are of any importance whatsoever next to the key one: less likely to kill people when something goes wrong.

Stealing a GPS-tagged autonomous bike or scooter is also not going to go especially well for whoever tries it.

Exactly, our mistakes are not inherently catastrophic. Stability is actually much harder than navigating.

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