Bye Bye Taxi Jobs - GM: Large Scale Fleet of Self Driving Taxi's By 2019 (generations, highway)
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What about the fact that the likely result of self driving cars is reduction of traffic deaths by maybe 90% or more. Is that not a worthwhile development?
You are contradicting yourself, first you say it is a fact and then you say likely.
There are no numbers out there yet, simply because self-driving cars are still very rare. Should they account for 50% of all cars, we can compare their safety.
Plus, why is it that road death numbers vary so much from country to country? Even within some countries? Obviously it is mostly about how drivers drive, not about the fact that they drive.
It's fairly obvious that more and more transporty is becoming autnomous, the London Docklands Railway (DLR) has been driverless since it started running back in the 1980's and new Underground trains set to come in to service will have the ability to be driverless, whilst buses and indeed taxis will also increasingly become driverless.
I have no problem with public transport becoming driverless, as long as it's regulated properly and that station and control staff are still in place.
In terms of the average family car, I think the technology might be further away due to expense if nothing else, you can easily make the money back in terms of paid public transport journeys or taxi fares but in terms of a private family vehicle such technology is probably going to be very expensive at this stage in it's development.
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You are contradicting yourself, first you say it is a fact and then you say likely.
There are no numbers out there yet, simply because self-driving cars are still very rare. Should they account for 50% of all cars, we can compare their safety.
Plus, why is it that road death numbers vary so much from country to country? Even within some countries? Obviously it is mostly about how drivers drive, not about the fact that they drive.
Road death numbers vary from country to country because some have more cars than others.
It may be 20 years before there are no longer any human driven cars on the road at all. However these advancements are happening exponentially and we are already at the cusp of this being a viable reality. GM is not going to built a fleet of self driving taxi's just to use them as experiments to be in the real world in 20 yers. The cost savings and safety improvements that self driving taxi's and tractor trailers would bring to the marketplace will win out, rather quickly IMHO.
Only thing that would slow things down is if the government does not grant its use. And I don't see that happening.
This. People don't realize what is on the near horizon, and self-driving cars are one of those things. Things are changing fast in the tech world. Look up connected cities. The Internet of Things is going to change everything, and it's coming at us fast. The majority of people have no clue.
You are contradicting yourself, first you say it is a fact and then you say likely.
There are no numbers out there yet, simply because self-driving cars are still very rare. Should they account for 50% of all cars, we can compare their safety.
Yes there are numbers.
Even as of early 2016 Google's self driving cars were safer than human drivers. At that point they had logged over a million miles. And none of the accidents were caused by the self driving cars but by humans hitting them. If all there were was self driving cars there would be almost no accidents.
This. People don't realize what is on the near horizon, and self-driving cars are one of those things. Things are changing fast in the tech world. Look up connected cities. The Internet of Things is going to change everything, and it's coming at us fast. The majority of people have no clue.
I know. I am reading some of these replies in disbelief. I have a friend who has driven a taxi for about 10 years. A year ago he said it will never happen no one will trust a self driving taxi. Lately he has totally changed his tune and for him he is near retirement age but sees no future in the taxi business. He is hoping to survive with his job another two years.
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