TLDR: Tesla will have as many robotaxis as Waymo in the year 2111, if the current growth rate holds (and if Waymo doesn’t add a single additional vehicle). So… I’m guessing the Tesla stock price will skyrocket.
TLDR: Tesla will have as many robotaxis as Waymo in the year 2111, if the current growth rate holds (and if Waymo doesn’t add a single additional vehicle). So… I’m guessing the Tesla stock price will skyrocket.
I mean, there are traffic violations, and then there are traffic violations - if there’s a dead body at the end, it was the second type.
Neither is desirable, but it would actually be a big win to create a tech system that drives a car that produces fewer fatalities per mile than the average human, regardless of whether or not it generates speeding tickets or other inconveniences.
That’s my opinion, anyway. I won’t downvote you, I only downvote comments unhelpful to the overall conversation, you’re not being unhelpful, I just disagree with you.
Speeding increases the distances needed to stop. That’s really important in school zones, where there’s kids crossing the street. Not only that, Waymo’s cars can’t identify school buses that are stopped to pick up and drop off students and tend to drive right past them.
The only reason they haven’t killed any kids yet is because they’re kept in small areas of cities away from schools. If you don’t believe me, here’s a video covering it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcq0tjmvGOs
And focusing on developing self-driving cars as robotaxis is silly when there’s a way better solution: re-zoning cities to make them more walkable and building more publiv transport. Removing cars from cities is way safer, and reduces issues like congestion and noise pollution.
And then there’s the issues of major tech companies trying to build up monopolies and fund fascist takeovers of the government (i.e. Elon Musk and Tesla), but that’s tangential to the main argument.
I know you think you’re being polite with this, but you’re actually being incredibly condescending here.