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Originally Posted by Flying Ace
autonomous cars are the future. It doesn't mean 100% of the locations will have autonomous cars...but especially in urban congested areas, it's the only option to have a car in a city.
Many people don't understand the concept on why we need it...here's a fantastic article on the chief google lead on their project and his vision (btw, he's a car guy, so he's not trying to get rid of cars):
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cult...ik-google-car/ |
He is like every tech person out there, making a car drive itself is a very interesting problem to solve. They solved some of the problem be not all of them. What most Tech people fail to understand is solving interesting problems does not mean that people will use or want to use the solution they came up to for an interesting problem. Ask Google about Google glasses, yeah neat technology, but it made people look like an idiot to others.
Keep in mind, getting people from one place to another has been solved a long time ago. Mass Transit and walking. I spent time in places with good mass transit systems and it works well. The only issue which does not work for people in the US you have to travel on the Mass Transits schedule not your own. But with Mass Transit you will get where you expect when you expect to and most likely always alive.
There is a large group of people who will not give up the wheel and it is for reason which has nothing to do with solving an interest technical problem.