Dude, where’s my self-driving car?
A good look at The Verge about the history of false claims made by the Silicon Valley hype machine around self-driving cars:
"In 2015, the then-lead of Google’s self-driving car project Chris Urmson said one of his goals in developing a fully driverless vehicle was to make sure that his 11-year-old son would never need a driver’s license.
"The subtext was that in five years, when Urmson’s son turned 16, self-driving cars would be so ubiquitous, and the technology would be so superior to human driving, that his teenage son would have no need nor desire to learn to drive himself.
“Well, it’s 2024, and Urmson’s son is now 20 years old. Any bets on whether he got that driver’s license?”
https://www.theverge.com/24065447/self-driving-car-autonomous-tesla-gm-baidu
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Columbia did a study of the life time cost of busses and found it was about 1.18 million for an electric bus. So for the same cost of this boondoggle we could have had 135,000 electric buses on the road. Probably even more if they were trolley buses.
https://www.columbia.edu/~ja3041/Electric%20Bus%20Analysis%20for%20NYC%20Transit%20by%20J%20Aber%20Columbia%20University%20-%20May%202016.pdf