So they are going to change public transportation infrastructure to support them right? They will get dedicated bus lanes and protected stops right? It’s definitely going to be affordable right? This is going to help with lessening car dependency RIGHT? 😮💨
I don’t trust them to do the right thing at all.
We’ve had them here in Phoenix since before the pandemic. They operate just like Uber, except they’re cheaper and there’s no driver. You can sit in any seat besides the driver seat, and store items in the trunk of the vehicle. You can pair your phone with the car and play your own music on the speakers. Pretty good experience all things considered. The cars are pretty good at finding a place to stop and load/unload passengers, but sometimes they will drive right past you when finding a place to park and you have to walk 10-15 feet to the car.
So they are going to change public transportation infrastructure to support them right? They will get dedicated bus lanes and protected stops right?
Why? They already work fine on the existing infrastructure.
Self-driving? This again?
If a Zoox robot taxi encounters a construction zone it has not seen before, for instance, a technician in the command center will receive an alert
Seems perfectly sensible
You’re right, doesn’t sound great. In the example they shared, sounds like the issue wasn’t that the car couldn’t drive around the fire truck, but that it couldn’t break a programming rule about crossing into a lane that would normally be opposing traffic. Once given the “ok” to follow such a route, the car handled it on its own, the human doesn’t actually drive it.
I could imagine a scenario where you need one human operator for every two vehicles. That’s still reducing labor by 50%.
Obviously they want it to be better than that, they want it to be one operator per ten vehicles or no operator at all.
And the fundamental problem with these systems is they will be owned by big corporations, and any gained efficiency will be consumed by the corporation, not enjoyed by the worker or passed on to the customer.
But I think there’s true value to be found there. Imagine a transportation cooperative - we’re a thousand households, we don’t all need our own car, but we need a car sometimes. We pool our resources and have a small fleet that minimizes our cost and environmental impact, and potentially drives more safely than human drivers.
Well self driving cars are best but not for now because the algorithm to detect object & pedestrian still needs tuning. I remembered Tesla still had same issue that made them crashed
In Asia self driving cars doesn’t work because we drive like maniac & can cause huge traffic crash compared to Europe or USA.Wake me up when we have Johnny Cab
Ha, no.
