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Figure more like 5-10 years for full implementation. And they'll be better in the city than human drivers.
LOL you really don't know how this city works. Driver less cars are a thing of the very distant future in this city. It's closer to 50 years than it is to 10 years.
all i know is more than 40 years ago i was sitting on a gas line going thank god in the future we will be flying around like george jetson in 40 or 50 years .
well fast forward 45 years and there i was sitting on the same gas line after sandy .
We are still using some of the same subway trains that were in service over 30 years ago. Take a look at the R trains. And in the past 30 years has much changed regarding our infrastructure? Not much.
They're on the streets in testing now. In truth, they're not quite ready for prime time. But give a few more years. The could work out a whole lotta bug in 5-10 years.
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5 to 10 years. Where have they tested their self-drive car?
Self-driving cars still needs to be fine-tuned and it also needs upgrade in the roads, traffic signals, etc so it can communicate
How will a self drive car take the directions of a traffic cop?
all i know is more than 40 years ago i was sitting on a gas line going thank god in the future we will be flying around like george jetson in 40 or 50 years .
well fast forward 45 years and there i was sitting on the same gas line after sandy .
No flying cars yet but we’ve had other vast technological achievements in that same timeframe... I’m communicating with you over the Internet, for example.
Technological changes happen exponentially. It takes a long time to figure out one thing then once that happens, it’s a rapid pace of improving off of that basic idea. Remember when almost no one had cell phones and those who did have them only made simple calls. Fast forward 20 years and most people are walking around with cellphone-computers in their pockets that have more processing power than the computer used to send man to the moon.
City never sold those medallions with any implicit guarantee they would hold value or whatever. You pays your money and takes your chances, that's what I say.
For decades since creation medallion taxis made their money because it was a captive market, this regardless of often poor service. Now something has come along offering a superior product that the market prefers. Too bad and too sad for taxi drivers and or fleet owners, but that is how the world works.
Their value wasn't a guarantee but the Medallion allowed you to provide a service no one else could.
Superior products COULD have existed all along, but the medallion system in place prohibited that.
Uber/Lyft is no major exception, except their lobbying and popularity allowed them to bypass the medallion system after the first few skirmishes.
The whole POINT of the medallion system was to keep the market captive.
Everyone here has such a stigma and hatred against yellow cabs you can't see to grasp this wasn't a real nice move on behalf of the City- rather than the poor service providers it contracted out to.
there are lots of business's that are dependent on gov't regulations to prosper . i guess when your gamble does not pay off the gov't should pay everyone for their business failure by that accord.
the company i worked for had to give up rewinding motors when the regulations on air filtering for vpi impregnation got so tough it was no longer cost effective to do
Long story short Uber/ride share and other options aren't going away. Both the MTA and taxis need to face facts and decide how best to go forward.
Taxis in general simply need to get their act together. People complained for decades about refusing hails, refusing to go to outer boroughs, cabs off duty during rush hours, poor state of vehicles, bad drivers and so forth. But the industry largely paid no attention since they were a legal monopoly.
That was then, now that a better product has entered the market (Uber/Lyft, etc...) we're all supposed to feel sorry for medallion taxis, and willingly see competition stifled so they can have their manor back.
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