Less than a week ago, I wrote about the big win for Cruise and Waymo in San Francisco. After months of debate and even a delayed vote by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), they got approval to run their robotaxis commercially 24/7 in San Francisco. A day later, a bunch of Cruise robotaxis reportedly […]
of fully autonomous driving, we had no reported injuries, no collisions involving pedestrians or cyclists, and every vehicle-to-vehicle event involved rule violations or dangerous behavior on the part of the human drivers.”
There are a lot of questions that we can’t answer yet. But, as a trained sociologist , I imagine there are going to be two trends that grow and grow. One is that more people will use robotaxis due to the convenience of being able to ride in a car from point to point without driving and without another human in the car with you. The other is that people will get more and more frustrated with scenarios like the one on Friday night. What will win? Convenience.
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