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When driverless cars are common on midwestern highways every night, they will start moving into complex urban areas. We are very far from cars navigating downtown NYC, Seattle, SF, Boston, etc.
Do you live in NYC, Seattle, SF, or Boston?
> “The companies are losing money. The businesses are being subsidized by [venture capital] money … And the drivers are essentially subsidizing it by working for very low wages.” Last time I pointed that out I was downvoted for some unknown reason. My neighbor was talking about buying a new car to drive for lyft/uber and I was like "the trick is to tear up somebody else's car." We'll see if he heeds my advice though…
Hard to believe but the number of votes something gets != the quality or accuracy of the statement.
Any Uber drivers want to chime in?
This seems rather low. Granted it's been almost two years since I drove for (primarily lyft) and I was making 50k/year for about 70h work a week. And also I gave myself about 6 weeks of vacation over that year and half.
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I saw one yesterday. There was a driver but like... come one, decades?
When driverless cars are common on midwestern highways every night, they will start moving into complex urban areas. We are very far from cars navigating downtown NYC, Seattle, SF, Boston, etc.
(But yeah, we are very far from cars navigating urban areas, or indeed anyplace where weather is inclement and so are people.)
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> Unless Uber itself is working on autonomous driving technology https://www.uber.com/info/atg/
Uber will exhaust their runway prior to reaching a level of autonomy sufficient to replace drivers. Quote me in 3 years.
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Right. That must be why a Waymo drove itself past me in the Bay Area two weeks ago.
5 years ago I was told the same thing, and 5 years before that. Maybe 5 years from now, but it’s been the same story forever.
In the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge, of 21 teams entered, 15 qualified to race on the course, and none finished the 240 km course. The best result was 12km. That was off road, with no requirement to obey traffic laws or other cars to hit.
Since 2009, Google/Waymo has 5 million driverless miles under their belt.
Is it 5 years away? I don't know, but this is not the same story forever. This is iterating and improving at a breakneck pace.
> “The companies are losing money. The businesses are being subsidized by [venture capital] money … And the drivers are essentially subsidizing it by working for very low wages.” Last time I pointed that out I was downvoted for some unknown reason. My neighbor was talking about buying a new car to drive for lyft/uber and I was like "the trick is to tear up somebody else's car." We'll see if he heeds my advice though…
> “The companies are losing money. The businesses are being subsidized by [venture capital] money … And the drivers are essentially subsidizing it by working for very low wages.” Last time I pointed that out I was downvoted for some unknown reason. My neighbor was talking about buying a new car to drive for lyft/uber and I was like "the trick is to tear up somebody else's car." We'll see if he heeds my advice though…
> Last time I pointed that out I was downvoted for some unknown reason. Hard to believe but the number of votes something gets != the quality or accuracy of the statement.
Any Uber drivers want to chime in?