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Baidu Apollo Go is conpletes millions of rides a year as well, with expansions into Europe in the Middle East. In China they've been active for a long time - during COVID they were making autonomous deliveries.

It is odd how many people don't realize how developed self-driving taxis are.

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The future isn't evenly distributed.

I think most people will consider self driving tech to be a thing when it's as widespread as TVs were, 20 years after their introduction.

TV tech was ready, it just wasn't cheap enough. Self Driving is not wide spread not because of cost issue though. It is still not quite good enough for universal usage. Give it another 10 years I think we should be close, especially in places like Japan.

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