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1 posted on 03/22/2023 5:23:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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You know Americans have gone to hell when they are too damn lazy to drive their own car. Guess they want to sit in the back seat eating bon bons and poking their cellphone.


2 posted on 03/22/2023 5:25:25 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Free the J6 Heroes! Now! Heroic J6 Lives Matter. (HJ6LM))
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Liability issues make self-driving too risky for manufacturers.

Juries can award tens of millions in a single case.


4 posted on 03/22/2023 5:27:18 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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This suits me just fine.

Who speaks for the rest of the country who does NOT want to be driving on roads with driverless vehicles (and we probably already are).

I was in software for 30 years - I know none of it is bulletproof. I'd rather not be killed by someone's buggy code, written at 3AM while they were trying to make a deadline, and not adequately tested because "Let the Beta folks test it".

5 posted on 03/22/2023 5:29:21 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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Indian software?


6 posted on 03/22/2023 5:30:05 AM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they wacnto die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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the terrorists love it

cuz everybody knows the toughest part about a car bomb

is finding a driver


9 posted on 03/22/2023 5:38:15 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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There are automated trains and monorails, on closed circuits with fixed stops, and even those systems fail. It's a combination of ego and ignorance to fail to address even a fraction of the exponentially more complex outside world factors.

Automated vehicles?

Train runs over automated food delivery robot:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2eTl3NHsFkQ

12 posted on 03/22/2023 5:44:21 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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“In fact, all kinds of mobility projects are losing money — bike-share, ride-hailing, scooters and shuttles, alike.”

They can add EVs to that list, since the Virtue Signalling class of people now have their EVs, meaning that EVs now have to actually COMPETE against gasoline cars (at least until government forces everyone to buy EVs).


14 posted on 03/22/2023 5:47:12 AM PDT by BobL
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Here’s a pretty interesting interview with the leading German auto insurer: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/insurance/klaus-jurgen-heitmann-on-the-journey-to-mobility-ecosystems?

Essentially refers in guardrd terms to transitioning their business beyond the “mobility” world in a decade plus. Suggests that in the near term they are going to buy up local repair shops and in the medium term, they expect to supply car services on a monthly rate basis, before even that disappears (for peons, of course).

Makes sense that as the globalists wind down the right to own and drive cars independently that they might want to buy up local service shops. Also gives insight on how they might plan the wind-down/control in other countries as well.


16 posted on 03/22/2023 5:51:52 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Do trains first, then we’ll talk.


21 posted on 03/22/2023 6:01:59 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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A bad idea is just that, profit poison.
Wake up.


29 posted on 03/22/2023 6:43:20 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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How does Ford keep losing billions of dollars and the stock price remain where it is? Must be the entire market is completely corrupt.


53 posted on 03/22/2023 9:30:51 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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So, no Johnny Cab?


54 posted on 03/22/2023 9:37:46 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("There should have been an age and risk stratification approach." still true)
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It was BOUND to fail….

Fully autonomous driving is multiple decades (at least) away. Whole lot of BILLIONS burned on snake oil.

This is an 80/20 90/10 problem. The first 80-90% are the easy part… the remaining 10-20% are the hard part and represent 80-90% of the overall effort… and it took 30-40 years to get to the 80-90% (east part) done.

Whole lot of fools burned a whole lot of cash thinking it was “almost there”… and it’s not… not even close.


59 posted on 03/22/2023 12:59:23 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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