Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco
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#2Fun fact: If you try to submit the form with ad-blockers enabled, it errors out saying "Blocked request. Please disable any add blockers" (typo included)
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Re: Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco
#3Fun fact: If you try to submit the form with ad-blockers enabled, it errors out saying "Blocked request. Please disable any add blockers" (typo included) :-)
Good eye
Re: Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco
#4What is the benefit of a taxi being driverless, for the passenger? Is it cheaper?
Re: Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco
#5What is the benefit of a taxi being driverless, for the passenger? Is it cheaper?
yea, you take the biggest cost of taxi out of equation.
Re: Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco
#6What is the benefit of a taxi being driverless, for the passenger? Is it cheaper?
It will likely be cheaper (maybe not initially), but more restrictive in pickup/drop-off and availability (ETA).
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#8Based on this image:
https://images.ctfassets.net/95kuvdv8zn1v/6h1C7lPC79OLOlddEE...
They and their VC backers are clearly betting on the concept that radars + lidar + imaging will be the ultimate successful solution in full self driving cars, as a completely opposite design and engineering philosophy from Tesla attempting to do "full self driving" with camera sensors and categorical rejection of lidar.
It is interesting to me that right now this is sitting on the HN homepage directly adjacent to: "Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs (reuters.com)"
Re: Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco
#9What is the benefit of a taxi being driverless, for the passenger? Is it cheaper?
Likely be able to get a taxi anywhere. No discrimination. No 20/25/30% tip suggested. No taking advantage of passengers, no weird routes to tack on extra fees.
Re: Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco
#10What is the benefit of a taxi being driverless, for the passenger? Is it cheaper?
At least in the UK, one of the most prolific serial rapists was a licensed taxi driver (not even an Uber driver (who get a lot of stick about not being as safe as "real" taxis) - but a licensed and supposedly-vetted London black taxi driver). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Worboys
So I guess safety is a major plus based on that.