System worked. Problem was investors have mostly bet on full autonomy, and when that failed to materialized they got scared out of the space.
Full autonomy isn't necessary. And I don't know if it's even profitable for trucks.
Full autonomy isn't necessary. And I don't know if it's even profitable for trucks.
lol.
I used to live on one of the side streets in MV that Google's AV cars trained on. Saw three in a row once. They were usually the only traffic, so that annual report of millions of miles travelled was meaningless - they might as well have driven arounf the Safeway parking lot at 5 am.
I guess passenger-carrying quadcopters is next. Oh wait ...
A better solution for robotaxis - just avoid the weird intersections.
My bet is that nearly all of them get COVID, with a higher hospitalization / mortality rate. Could knock 30% of capacity off the road in the next 2 quarters, which would mean food shortages.