> Then why do we need this kind of company? I don’t know.
Why bother doing anything at all with this attitude?
Let's freeze in place and wait until the sun dies out. I don't know.
To me, Waymo is exciting because it could unlock a next step function of capabilities, patterns, and economics. Everything we take for granted in transportation -- highways, traffic signals, parking, traffic itself -- we could potentially get to reevaluate a lot of previously-held assumptions. The second- and third-order effects could be wild.
Maybe it'll all go bust. It's worth a shot, though. The rewards, if they succeed, will be tremendous.
waymo is 14 years old, maybe it is enough for a shot and time to move on something more proven? Like poor billions into smarter public transportation for example.
At some point in history there were 100 single-celled organisms (or protocellular organisms?) presumably around some hydrothermal vent. Not a lot of promise there, either.
I get the self-driving car skepticism. I'm a skeptic. But the expected value is insanely positive and warrants our attention.
what is the point of this comment? if i need to get to an appointment im not going to go take the bart, risking missing the interval or delays + walk a mile to get to my destination
theres obvious value in last mile transportation that trains will never provide. please go outside
I come from a place that has in the last 13 years more than 500K people died, in almost 28% of the cases it happened roads/highways due to illegal overtaking and over-speeding.
I would like to have in my lifetime a car that had some sort of technology that could prevent some of those accidents, and autonomous cars could help on it.
Does learn to drive such a hard thing? No
Then why do we need this kind of company? I don’t know.