That autonomous driving is coming is inevitable. The scale and timing I can debate though.

Chris Urmson, co-founder of Aurora and former cto if the Google self driving car project doesn't expect to see autonomous vehicles such as robotaxis scale broadly for 30-50 years. His time frames were a fair but more aggressive a few years ago before he had hit self-driving car puberty.

Autopilot's true believers have yet to recognize the full scope of the problem.

> Autopilot's true believers have yet to recognize the full scope of the problem.

Those guys have their head in the sand about autonomous cars effects on congestion.

Well that’s another issue. I don’t drive into my relatively nearby major city much these days because of traffic (and because it’s nearly an hour in any case).

If I could be driven at minimal incremental cost? A whole lot more.

And I doubt I’m atypical.

A moon base must have seemed inevitable to those in the 1960s too.

1960s is a bit too optimistic. I personally think it'll happen in the 1970s.

If building a base on the moon created wealth and would have rewarded the builders with billions of dollars, then yes, we'd probably have a base on the moon by now.

Not much money in moon bases. Transportation industry is over half a trillion $ though.

If I want to invest in autonomous vehicles why am I buying stock in a money losing taxi company instead of a company that makes money and is doing self driving car research.

Are you referring to buying Alphabet stock (Waymo) or GM stock (Cruze)?

Uber and Tesla are both highly unprofitable companies, so you couldn't be referring to either of those.

Exactly.