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Re:Retired People Could Be Ideal Customers for Self-Driving ... by panic on Friday February 22, 2019 @10:53PM (#19231487)
As far as I can tell, these companies convinced their investors that they're going to be the next Uber, so they need to look like they're making direct progress toward that goal. Driving around a retirement home might seem like a distraction when Tesla claims to be shipping a fully autonomous car by the end of 2019.
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Re:Retired People Could Be Ideal Customers for Self-Driving ... by Piskvorrr on Sunday February 24, 2019 @04:05AM (#19237827)
Tesla claims things, and this is a perpetually moving goal. IIRC, they first announced it in 2015, to be completed by 2016. Well...I assume it could be a business tactic, to force competitors' energy in this direction, just as you have noted.
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