Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'

Re:Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never ... by Groxx on Monday January 20, 2020 @12:30AM (#22096549)

To play devil's advocate slightly, you could pretty easily argue that self-driving tech is most useful to apply to the lower-safety brackets, which pull down that average.

So even if it's not as good as the healthy-and-wealthy bracket that might be safer, if it's better than the average then it'd be potentially significantly better than the non-healthy-and-wealthy. In that light this seems like a massive win.

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Re:Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never ... by jaclaz on Monday January 20, 2020 @05:52AM (#22097953)

Yep, only that the lower-safety bracket cannot afford it, not today nor - presumably - in a near future.

And - to be fair - think "Sabrina" (the movie with Audrey Hepburn), really rich people traditionally had professional drivers (chauffers) which maybe had an even lower rate of accidents.

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