Self-driving cars turned out to be harder than expected

Re:Self-driving cars turned out to be harder than expected by puranjay on Friday February 14, 2020 @11:19PM (#22333237)

I've become increasingly jaded about the tech hype cycle. We had 3D Printing, VR/AR, crypto, and self driving cars hyped to no extent in 2-4 year cycles. We were told that they were going to change our world in the next few years.

Turns out that the underlying technology was far from maturity in each case and the use cases limited to a handful of enthusiasts.

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Re:Self-driving cars turned out to be harder than expected by allhacks on Friday February 14, 2020 @11:23PM (#22333242)

I worked at a car marketplace company. The number of time people told us back in 2014-2016 that Americans would no longer own cars in “2-3 years” and that consequently our market would vanish over night ... btw this group of people included very respectable folks, many of whom have a lot of fans here on HN :)

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Re:Self-driving cars turned out to be harder than expected by wutbrodo on Saturday February 15, 2020 @01:06PM (#22336792)

That's trivially stupid though; if a perfect SDC came out tomorrow, it would take more than 2-4 years to turn over the vast amount of capital out there, and probably another decade or two to shake people (and thus policy, in a democracy) out of their status quo bias, no matter how terrible the status quo is.

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Re:Self-driving cars turned out to be harder than expected by puranjay on Saturday February 15, 2020 @02:36PM (#22337412)

You're going to take even more time to convince people to let go of the control - or at least the idea of control - that comes from driving yourself.

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