Re:Self driving cars and beyond
by skywhopper on Sunday February 11, 2018 @06:22PM
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3D printing is a real technology that just doesn't make sense for a consumer product. Autonomous vehicles make a little more sense as a consumer product, but aren't anywhere close to being a real technology.
In particular, I'm always confused about how autonomous vehicles are supposed to solve congestion. There wouldn't be fewer cars on the road. Actually there would be more, because some percentage of the fleet would be en route to pick someone up rather than in use. And I see no chance of them reducing total trips.
But it's impossible to respond to a string of videos, so I don't know if this is relevant to the posted "article", which, it should be noted, is from a VC group that's _heavily_ invested in this tech and benefits from prolonging the hype.
In particular, I'm always confused about how autonomous vehicles are supposed to solve congestion. There wouldn't be fewer cars on the road. Actually there would be more, because some percentage of the fleet would be en route to pick someone up rather than in use. And I see no chance of them reducing total trips.
But it's impossible to respond to a string of videos, so I don't know if this is relevant to the posted "article", which, it should be noted, is from a VC group that's _heavily_ invested in this tech and benefits from prolonging the hype.