[jocoda]

Until recently I thought self driving was not going to happen. But in the early days of the car's history someone had to walk in front of the car as it went along, waving a red flag to warn people of this mechanical monstrosity.

And now we have substantial societal adaptations, both legal and structural to support ubiquitous vehicular transport.

Similar changes are on the way to support self driving. Our environment will be adapted to make it easier to implement self driving. And for that we won't need AGI.

Jaywalking is a crime thanks to the car. Who knows what we're not going to be allowed to do soon because of self driving.

[steveBK123]

By that definition though, if we were anywhere close... I'd expect a peer AI power & authoritarian regime like China, which also focusses on EVs, to have some tier 2 city with robotaxi-only mandate by now and a working model for what it looks like.

Yet there are no signs of that. If anything they appear to be behind us.