I wouldn’t count on Tesla getting anything working properly to market any time soon.
They’re a joke in the industry.
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
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.
I love how all the trains stop directly in front of my home
I have tracks near my house that I could take to work, if they bothered to extend the line. There are some parts that need repair, but the land exists and the rails are largely unused for freight and mostly used to store extra cars. It goes right through most of the city centers in my area, and a large company has already promised to create a ton of jobs if the line is built. Oh, and there’s crazy congestion on the highway that runs parallel to these tracks, and these tracks go right next to two professional sports stadiums.
So when are they starting construction? Not until 2050 at the earliest… Why? A handful of people in one small area of the line oppose it…
How is the top comment not a video of all the Waymo’s in a traffic jam they created, and stuck?
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.
How the fuck do you even pronounce Zoox? I swear the marketing departments are just mashing their keyboards at this point.
Pronounce it just like it’s spelled? Zoo + x. The name sucks, but it’s not hard to pronounce.
So you’re saying it’s pronounced zoo-ex, zoo-ox, or zooks but not zo-ox. Thanks for clearing that up.
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.
Which industry?
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)?
they all should be banned from public roads
Humans should be banned from diving on public roads. They have a horrible track record.
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
