Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly
by mattferderer on Sunday September 02, 2018 @12:40PM
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The earliest electric cars I noticed on the streets were glorified golf carts. They were ideal for very short distances, like getting to work & running errands.
Couldn't self driving cars in the very near future follow this same path? Find a very densely populated area. Get self driving cars to work very well in that area for short trips. Slowly expand to similar areas?
I haven't followed either of these very closely, so please correct me where I'm wrong.
Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly
by adrianN on Sunday September 02, 2018 @03:00PM
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That's kind of where self driving busses go. The first prototypes run short routes on aiports or something like that. But I don't think that short routes on normal streets are significantly easier than long routes on normal streets.
I think electric car revolution will be at least two decades earlier than self-driving.
As far as electric goes we are starting to reap benefits of vast investment in better tech, manufacturing and vehicles purpose built for it.
Self-driving is very far away and the best publicly available systems only do slightly more than lane-assist, the by far simplest part of self-driving.