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Re:Uber prices blockbuster IPO conservatively to raise $8.1B by Fricken on Thursday May 09, 2019 @08:02PM (#19873763)
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.

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Re:Uber prices blockbuster IPO conservatively to raise $8.1B by Gibbon1 on Thursday May 09, 2019 @08:14PM (#19873840)
> 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.

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Re:Uber prices blockbuster IPO conservatively to raise $8.1B by ghaff on Thursday May 09, 2019 @10:25PM (#19874531)
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.

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