Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ...
by Lewton on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @07:27AM
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> We seen competition not working in many sectors
Agreed!
I don't think car manufacturers is one of those sectors. Even if you take into account the periodic scandals (emission test, having to recall cars because they were literally killing people[0], etc) that pop up, cars have gotten massively safer over the past 50 years
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch...
((hey, wait a minute. Doesn't that mean we already have a legal framework for cars killing people?))
We seen competition not working in many sectors, like ISPs is US, operating systems for desktops or mobile phones...
IF the self driving component in the car could be swapped so you can buy say Tesla but get the self driving package from BMW or from Google then that could help competition, but without this if all companies have a similar failure rate then they can concentrate on competing on marketing,horse power, price, efficiency and not adding some extra safety, at least until some important person or a big number or children get killed by a very stupid issue like a car hit a wall because it did not see it because it got confused by some drawings on the wall.