The fact investors are into autonomous vehicles is mind-boggling.
They won’t survive First Contact with the American tort bar.
Eventually autonomous vehicles will exist, but the fact the industry is trying to sell and push this tech, in the state it is today is downright CRIMINAL.
There aren’t even semi-automous trucks licensed to drive on our Interstates, which is a FAR simply problem... all traffic travels in the same direction, no cross traffic, signals, etc.... Yet they are trying to sell fully autonomous vehicles for CITY driving is downright INSANE.
There are THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of known cases they have NO IDEA how to solve yet with autonomous vehicles. These vehicles have NO business on public streets...
Uber will be BK long before autonomous vehicles are certified en masse... and if they are certified en masse before then it will be because someone spend a fortune buying votes...
Not only is UBER not likely to survive until autonomous vehicles, but cities are going to start making them live more and more within the frameworks that exist for other public transportation services, which means their expenses will keep going up, AND most folks are figuring out that driving for UBER doesn’t pay enough to be worth the hassle. So attracting and retaining drivers will continue to cost more and more.