[ThomPete]

I don't believe it will take that long.

[vkou]

Solving the self-driving car problem in busy urban centers is vastly more difficult then solving it for freeway driving. (Where this technology still manages to fail in a very spectacular way.)

[ThomPete]

You mean like here:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BK0z7oZgOia7zfdlJ4ygJqEDBW8e17lq...

[vkou]

What is that supposed to prove? It's a test vehicle. It's being driven by a human. There's no roadmap, there's nothing that's passed certification, there's no roadmap for when there will be something that passes certification.

[ThomPete]

Its proving that we arent necessarily two decades off.

[ethanbond]

Never mind solving the self-driving car problem in the thousands of legislatures throughout the US alone.

[vkou]

I think if it can be solved in California, Texas, and at the federal level, the rest will follow suit.

Self-driving taxi legislature, on the other hand, will be a different can of worms.

In our current economic system, no city in its right mind will be interested in seeing robots funnel money directly from its residents to a VC fund.