"The hostility towards self driving is so baffling to me"
lol perhaps you should do more research then mate. You clearly don't understand the nature of humans and interests.
lol perhaps you should do more research then mate. You clearly don't understand the nature of humans and interests.
Electric cars that are much less or at all maintainable by yourself or 3rd parties resulting in easy lock in and higher prices. Heated subscription seats will only be the beginning.
A lot of internet connected sensors, cameras and GPS resulting in complete surveillance of any public space since by design its a moving panopticon with AI. Flock is a joke compared to this.
Remote control from bad and "good" actors that could do _anything_ to _anyone_ at _anytime_. Since all of them are running proprietary software where plausible deniability is by design.
Loss of independent transportation. Once self driving hits critical mass it will become mandated, only for your safety of course. Meaning anybody or any group of people currently not in power could be refused service for any or no reason. Mandated breathalyzer will look like a toy in comparison. Please upload your ID and scan your face to drive. You want to drive to this protest? I don't think so Dave how about I reroute you to the next education facility locks doors. Have you ever seen people use vehicles in a natural disaster, war or other public unrest emergency situation to save lifes? Well in the future you won't since self driving cars are nothing more than a hunk of metal without connection or remote permission.
this is like discussing what will happen when we have UBI or teleporters or mars habitation. It's so far in the future it's funny.
As mentioned elsewhere, there is no such thing as a self-driving car. Waymo just removed the ability for their cars to go on freeways recently. There's no Teslas for rent within 50 miles of my house.
My friend just got a 2026 tesla and he has to take over to stop it from using the wrong lanes on freeways, or going straight in a turn lane.
My wife's driver assist in the subaru tries to kill me every time i use it, me and everyone in the car with me. so i shut it off. maybe there's been an OTA update that fixed it, who knows. All i know is there's a massive class action just waiting against subaru, once their eyesore system kills enough people.
There is no self-driving car, such that, right now, i could order one, and it would show up at my house.
we are 40 years from a fully autonomous, self-driving and self navigating car. and that's being conservative. We'll probably get some intermediate "partial self driving" like we have now with addons like "pre-planned routes" like I-10 or whatever.
My friend drives in Los Angeles with his tesla. I live in Louisiana.
There's no self driving.
my friend may just be hoping he gets to see it, 40 years is a long time for him. me too, but i might see it.