What's interesting is that about 80% Tesla's entire valuation is FSD and Optimus, and the underlying assumption with FSD is that it'll magically turn on for all Tesla's in a day and they'll have a monopoly and extract all the profit needed for that valuation. Apart from any comparisons with Waymo, I suspect self-driving will broadly follow other AI tech, where we'll see a proliferation of competitive self-driving tech on the heels of first movers. Local protectionism will also probably play a big role in this.
Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas
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#12It’s a cute gimmick for tourists but it won’t contribute to public transportation.
Never understood this take. Just because it doesn’t address the systemic inequities in society doesn’t mean it’s not useful.
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#13The most useful thing I expect from robotaxis is speed regulations. What's considered normal for humans, driving higher than the speed limits, will not for automatic cars.
no thanks, I don't fancy dodging 120mph robots when I'm crossing the road, or breathing in the extra pollution that this would create (even if its an EV!)
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#14How do we know this isn’t just an autonomous vehicle wrapper company?
I don't know that. Perhaps in aggregate, we don't either.
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#15Congrats to the team! It's no small feat to launch to the public in this space, and from the amount of testing I've seen Zoox doing it certainly seems like they've put in the work. Best of luck!
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#16How do we know this isn’t just an autonomous vehicle wrapper company?
Zoox is a subsidiary Amazon since 2019, if that's what you mean. If you mean software/hardware - they are full stack, i.e. they didn't buy this as prebuilt from say Waymo and slap a Zoox sticker on it.
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#17Hopefully some genius will figure out a way of joining lots of these together into a 'gigapod'. That might have enough capacity to actually work at city scale.
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#18Curious, what happens to those car accident attorneys if/when these become ready for the wild.
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#19The most useful thing I expect from robotaxis is speed regulations. What's considered normal for humans, driving higher than the speed limits, will not for automatic cars.
no thanks, I don't fancy dodging 120mph robots when I'm crossing the road, or breathing in the extra pollution that this would create (even if its an EV!)
I think you misinterpreted, OP meant that robots will respect the rules, which humans typically don't, e.g. driving at 50 where the limit is 30.
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#20This whole robotaxi thing is so stupid.
How so? You realize there are people who cannot legally drive for whom a robotaxi is a life changing achievement?