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Just what I want to do. Jump into a "Johnny Cab" and have some uncontrolled robot driving me all around. No way it could be hacked and made to crash or do something unsafe! No thanks, I'll keep my gas powered clunker. At least I still have control of it.
True, with the caveat that it's the very, very distant future. I think eventually we'll get to a point where self-driving cars are ubiquitous and future generations will view our age of wantonly smashing vehicles into one another the way we think of the wild west. I don't think it'll happen for a very long time, though.
I worked at Lyft ten years ago (before Meta), and at that point the founders thought it was right around the corner.
That experience really changed my pov on innovation and the speed of implementing them. Things tend to move way slower than what media and «experts» proclaim. The world today is very much like the world tomorrow. Things move slow and gradually to the point where it’s almost unnoticeable.
In theory, if all cars are on the same network, then coordination should be better than humans (no emotions, no distracted driving, no negligence).
However, it’ll take time to come to reality. Insurance lobbies and traditional automakers that don’t have relationships with Waymo or Tesla will rally hard to push back as their businesses will be disrupted.
Uber will need to license this or also be destroyed unless they move to Uber eats and groceries only.
Less parking infrastructure and less ongoing maintenance and insurance/renewals/inspections/property taxes are things that are benefits
I don’t really care who drives me around, i hate traffic