Re:VW, BMW and Daimler hold talks on cooperation in self-dri...
by viscanti on Sunday February 03, 2019 @10:52AM
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Right. If the solution was just to put more miles on their vehicles. We'd see them with 10x the number of vehicles out on the road. They're not just a few months of "learning" away from cracking full self driving.
The financial incentive of getting there first is too great for them to not just throw money and hardware at the problem if that's all it took. That we see they're not doing that tells us they know they're missing some critical component. Which means all the cars out on the road now are mostly there for PR. Waymo is trying to get people comfortable with the change and to change regulations in states across the country, but they can't be "learning" anything (or they'd just scale that up and launch full self driving sooner).
The financial incentive of getting there first is too great for them to not just throw money and hardware at the problem if that's all it took. That we see they're not doing that tells us they know they're missing some critical component. Which means all the cars out on the road now are mostly there for PR. Waymo is trying to get people comfortable with the change and to change regulations in states across the country, but they can't be "learning" anything (or they'd just scale that up and launch full self driving sooner).