Uber / Lyft pay their drivers so poorly and continue to abuse US tipping culture so badly that drivers have to work crazy hours for any reasonable pay. This is now a hazard as it's not uncommon to find drivers starting to fall asleep at the wheel. I welcome this technology but hope some better players emerge than these usual scumbags.
Zoox's position is unfortunate because they basically had to sell themselves five years ago in order to keep operating. It takes extremely deep pockets to get this cutting-edge technology on the road while successfully navigating the winding roads of regulations and public trust.
I’m not impressed until it can legally drive while it is snowing.
Driving in mostly hot regions on predefined paths is not that impressive.
But you know what fully automated system you could make in any weather? Trains.
It's gonna take a lot more data and trust building to convince me to get in an autonomous piloted vehicle. After working in an industry that does autonomous driving and seeing some of it for myself, i don't trust it at all.
There's a lot more issues that are inherent to this that I'm against making this mainstream. E.g. if these cars get special road status, will it be maintenance and changes (humans can read signs)? If there will be competition, will the cars then drive empty near places to shorten waiting times? Will it drive these companies to push propaganda to build cities for cars again (i.e. inventing "Jaywalking", round 2)?
I wouldn't count on Tesla getting anything working properly to market any time soon.
Seriously, I wouldn't even trust a self-driving Tesla if it was in a small, geo-fenced area.
The current state of FSD is that it's a really nice driver aid, but it's pretty far from being able to do anything beyond level 3
How is the top comment not a video of all the Waymo's in a traffic jam they created, and stuck?
How the fuck do you even pronounce Zoox? I swear the marketing departments are just mashing their keyboards at this point.
they all should be banned from public roads
Why? Wouldn't it be expensive to build a whole new set of private roads everywhere for these?
they can do what they want and i hope they do waste a bunch of money building their own roads
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