Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality

Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality by anticensor on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:01PM (#17981982)

  Self-driving car: ZF
  Electric car: ZF
  TaaS: ZF
  Self-driving advertising services: ZF

All will be available, all from the same company. EDIT: Waymo laughed at "route-based advertising" when I mentioned, but ZF supports this idea. Route-based advertising or route advertising is an advertising model where your vehicle diverts to make you see a particular place and/or get you to visit a particular shop. For example, it may make you see McDonalds to get you to buy BigMac.

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Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality by AlanSE on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:11PM (#17982081)

Silly question, but what do you mean when you type "ZF"?

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Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality by aaaaaaaaaab on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:19PM (#17982159)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZF_Friedrichshafen

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Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality by bmurray7jhu on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:54PM (#17983433)

Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory?

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Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality by JBReefer on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:24PM (#17982202)

That is extremely dystopian

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Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality by anticensor on Friday September 21, 2018 @01:03PM (#18041074)

Also prone to hijacking by terrorists.

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Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality by saltcured on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:30PM (#17982795)

It sounds like the touts who circle airport arrivals like vultures, looking for tourists to take for a ride...

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