When it comes to autonomous vehicles, the landscape is littered with over-optimistic predictions. Here’s why the future of self-driving cars has yet to arrive.
In 2015, the then-lead of Google’s self-driving car project Chris Urmson said one of his goals in developing a fully driverless vehicle was to make sure that his 11-year-old son would never need a driver’s license. The subtext was that in five years, when Urmson’s son turned 16, self-driving cars would be so ubiquitous, and the technology would be so superior to human driving, that his teenage son would have no need nor desire to learn to drive himself.
Some states, like California, have done their best to spin up some sort of regulatory playbook. But most were eager to attract companies under the belief that driverless cars were the future. And who wants to stand in the way of the future? 'For nearly a decade, AV operators were able to raise money almost without restriction. ' For nearly a decade, AV operators were able to raise money almost without restriction.
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