Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor crash

Re:Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor ... by throwaway2048 on Monday February 29, 2016 @11:48PM (#11200844)

if replacing a machine costs $5 million, and the automatic model $1 million ontop of that, and you pay an operator $60k a year, the value proposition isn't very clear.

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Re:Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor ... by simplemath on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @12:23AM (#11200935)

What if the automatic model was only 200k more?

20k?

It's all coming.

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Re:Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor ... by throwaway2048 on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @01:09AM (#11201041)

For classes of machines where only a few thousand, or even a few tens/hundreds of thousands of units exist total, the costs of developing the sophisticated AI that requires are not going to be that low for a lot longer than 5-10 years from now. Especially considering the market is split between many player and none are going to share their secret sauce AI.

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