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by baybal2 1901 days ago
> It will be the ownership. In 3 to 5 years we should see autonomous vehicles that are offered by robot taxi networks.

We already see autonomous vehicles offered by non-robot taxi networks... And... what so?

> Customers will no longer have to worry about maintenance, charging, insurance, parking, cleaning,...

It's called taxi...

> Only very few companies can create/train the self-driving technology, e.g. Tesla, Google,... The outcome will be that we will see a lot less car companies.

There is no dramatic differentiation to current "AI" driving systems what-so-ever, they are all quite dumb, and have to act on the lowest margin of caution, just like all "self-driving" attempts working on the same principle in the last 30 years.