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BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 week agoYou’ve cast double on my links, but you’re clearly too young to actually remember these things happening. I’m not. I do remember lots of people laughing and dismissing all three as never going to be for normal consumers (I’m not old enough to remember them laughing at cars)
You’re also clearly not paying attention to this industry if you think Tesla is a leader. You’ve only caught what made the news in the UK.
Waymo is far and away the leader, having hundreds of cars driving around daily with nobody behind the steering wheel.
Mobileye(NA and Europe) and Baidu(China) are also actively driving around without drivers in certain places.
The only place Tesla has them fully autonomous is in the factory as far as I know.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I am in my 40’s and been in the internet pretty much since its inception.
I see Waymo are quite active in US cities so thanks for that.
Let’s come back in a few decades and we can look back on this and see whose guess, cause that’s all we are doing, is closest to the truth.
Just like many people could see the future of Netflix, there will always be a Blockbuster laughing them out of the room.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Your example about Netflix proved my point. Naysayers said it wouldn’t work, but they are now the leader.
I’m happy to wait and see, I fully expect them to arrive in my city in the next decade.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
But you missed the point in that had Netflix failed you could be here saying “see Blockbuster were correct”.
I’m not trying to be confrontational here and I’m saying this as I feel I might be coming across that way. What I’m trying to say is for every naysayer you can find someone who was the opposite and vice versa for all your examples. If that makes sense.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
The benefit to self-driving cars is self-evident though. There’s no argument that they wouldn’t be better than human drivers in theory. Not only for safety, but for traffic, parking, cost, etc.
The only thing holding them back a this point is refinement. They have already proven that in at least three cities, they are mile for mile safer than human driven vehicles.
Waymo has gone from 1 city, to 3, to now pushing out to 11 in a few years. I wouldn’t be surprised if it doubled 5 times again in the next 10 years. That would put it in just under 200 cities by 2035.
The first iPhone only sold a million units in the first year, but two years later there were 25 million iPhones and they hit the 200 million mark by year 5.