231 replies to this topic

[Mike K.]

I mean giving up traditional bus service for these autonomous mini buses.

I don’t think closer confines on a driverless vehicle will make public transit more appealing.

[Ismo07]

I mean giving up traditional bus service for these autonomous mini buses.

I don’t think closer confines on a driverless vehicle will make public transit more appealing.

 

Will large busses eventually be autonomous..?  

[Victoria Watcher]

No they will be obsolete.

[Ismo07]

No they will be obsolete.

 

There won't be routes anymore?  Everyone will be picked up and delivered?  I think there will be a less expensive transit system still... 

[Victoria Watcher]

Probably not. Everyone will want their own private pod.

[Ismo07]

Probably not. Everyone will want their own private pod.

 

I think there was transit, even in the Jetsons...

[lanforod]

Elon has been promising us self-driving cars for 13 years now.  Lisa Helps told us we wouid be driven around in robo-taxis by 2020. 

 

Granted there are a couple of companies operating robo-taxi fleets in very flat, low density, low complexity neighbourhoods. I don't see us having anything broadly based within the next 20 years if ever.

 

San Franscisco and LA are anything but low complex neighbourhoods.
Where Waymo operates in SF: https://images.ctfas...INED.svg?w=1440

[lanforod]

Will large busses eventually be autonomous..?  

 

Those minibus things Elon announced seem like a possible thing... 

[Matt R.]

Is sharing a cab like having roommates? A thing of the past?

We all need our own private teslas at our beck and call 24/7 now?

[Victoria Watcher]

We will share a pod with friends and family. Not strangers.

Uber already has a stranger share program in larger centres. It’s not popular.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 October 2024 - 11:03 AM.

[Matt R.]

Back in our poorer days we’d think nothing of getting off the ferry in tsa and wrangling another couple of strangers to split a cab to town or at least to the sky train.

I think Vancouver uber lets you split fares, strangers or not.

[Victoria Watcher]

The current problem with Waymo is that the initial cost is much too high.

 

[splashflash]

Not really autonomous cars, but rather buses:

https://www.reuters....-us-2024-11-07/

"A subsidiary of a German auto supplier has asked U.S. auto safety regulators to approve the deployment annually of up to 2,500 autonomous electric buses without steering wheels and other human controls, a U.S. agency said Thursday.

"HOLON, a unit of German automotive supplier Benteler Group, asked the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for an exemption from federal auto safety standards for its automated electric bus that does not have pedals, manual turn signals or mirrors needed by a human driver. HOLON said the vehicle's autonomous driving system was collaboratively developed by HOLON and Mobileye

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

https://x.com/Sawyer...369671953392061

 

[Victoria Watcher]

 

https://x.com/Sawyer...643659957960916

[Victoria Watcher]

https://x.com/WholeM...490992491188265

 

[Victoria Watcher]

https://x.com/Sawyer...579150222147616

 

[Victoria Watcher]

https://x.com/JoeTeg...164206946451750

 

[splashflash]

GM Calls It Quits on Mary Barra’s $50 Billion Robotaxi Dream

- Automaker cites growing competition, costs to scale business
- Cruise faced regulatory crackdown after pedestrian accident

https://www.bloomber...ed-by-ceo-barra