Why Cars Aren't the Future of Self-Driving

Driverless car engineer and Pronto CEO Anthony Levandowski says truly autonomous vehicles are years — if not decades — away. So he’s focused on applications in the here and now, including delivering solutions for the mining and trucking industries. Bloomberg's Max Chafkin reports.

Tech and auto giants have spent years hyping self-driving cars as a just around the corner innovation that would make our streets safer. Instead, they’re increasingly looking like a $100 billion flop.

They were supposed to be the future. But prominent detractors—including Anthony Levandowski, who pioneered the industry—are getting louder as the losses get bigger.

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[cckb]

The question in the title was not answered.

[robestivill]

This is basically a long advert for Pronto. Clickbait.

[personalgrowth]

The title and the content are in parallel universes to each other. Not sure how Mr. Lewandowski's statement that "fully driverless cars are years if not decades away" differs from the industry's general view.

[MuppetChops]

Wouldn’t it be easier to build out a more robust rail infrastructure/network, then add autonomy to that?

[ceasair]

You know we already have fully autonomous AND safe vehicles. They're called trains.

[mikemiller]

Economies of scale and unit of economics. Just like anything in business. It’s business. Gotta be sustainable dude.

[katehillier]

I dont want to drive a car that spies on everything and everyone 360 and which pumps data to big tech with unwanted intrusive ads and so called recommendations on the dashboard.

[_________]

This is an interesting dilemma. Those professionals who dealt with the earlier versions of the artificial intelligence winter or AI winter understand that we may be going down a deep deep rabbit hole that leads to nowhere when it comes to figuring out the right AI model in order to make automation more than simply back end variables For a B 2 B process.

A problem with the current AI models that try to use computer vision and such to bring this technology to a more consumer level is the unpredictability that can’t be captured reliably as well as the math that can’t predict the chaos enough. Sprinkle on top of that, the fact that human beings fell in love with the nature of having their own autonomy and are not likely within this cycle of turning relinquish any control of their driving which is a symbol of freedom.

These many factors from cultural, public sector, private sector and technology limitations play very interesting role in the wayward evolution of everything the video was talking about.

[freddied]

I agree with Anthony. The self driving meatheads will never agree.

[MiaMia-rxdw]

I personally like driving my own car. I don't like that out of control feeling, and I will never trust a computer more than a "sane" humans judgements. I cant even fall asleep in a car or in a plane with a human controlling it, much less nobody at the wheel😲 No thank you!