GM is just doing what every other carmaker is doing, and in fact, some of the other carmakers might be ahead of GM when it comes to the AI-tech in smart-cars, or autonomous tech. Tesla and Google and other companies have been testing dreverless technology for about a decade now. A decade is way before Obama came into office.
The carmakers are making sure that they’re not left behind in the “futuristic” technology for vehicles. So, if GM was following Obama’s lead for saving the planet, what about Ford and Chrysler/Fiat and Toyota and Volvo and all the others? Ford has mentioned releasing their driverless vehicles with Level 5 (completely autonomous) technology sometime between 2020 and 2021.
I know about how Obama was disruptive in the economy and especially in the automobile industry, but he didn’t have anything to do with the autonomous vehicles thing. The challenge to develop autonomous vehicles predates the Obama administration, and of course, when something seems or is ready for actual implementation, everybody is going to jump on board.
BTW, driverless technology should be separated from the “save the planet” technology, since driverless cars will be made with regular fuel driving mechanical parts. So, in that case, Obama would be hating driverless vehicles too that have fossil-fuel engines, or ICE.
Myself? When driverless comes around, and I have a choice between ICE engine vehicle vs EVs, I’ll be choosing ICE.
The other part about driverless for EVs, is that, the liberals would end up hating the tehnology where EVs are concerned. That’s because EVs would mean millions of jobs lost, and many billions in lost tax revenue to all levels of government, and as we all know, liberals like spending money, but if it’s not there, they will rue the day that they ever decided on EVs to replace ICE.
“as we all know, liberals like spending money, but if it’s not there, they will rue the day that they ever decided on EVs to replace ICE.”
Yeah, Obama probably would not have influenced the accelerated development of driver-less tech but I still have the feeling that there was some attempt, successful or not, to hasten the end of fossil fuel ICE’s...because human beings and their love of driving automobiles are the reason that we human beings must also “save the Planet”. To give up some of this freedom so that we won’t have to relocate to another solar system, yadda-yadda...Obama and Climate Change ‘parishoners’ the world over want there to be an effect (Save the Planet) where there is yet to be sufficient probable cause and technical correctness. I hope they fail!