SethInMI 145 #1 Posted January 3 2023 was an interesting year in robotaxis. In some ways it felt like the technology was finally getting out of "will it ever work" stage and into the "the future is here" stage, but other ways it felt like it was a "maybe this will never work we are giving up" year Ford abandoned Argo. GM / Cruise bit of more that it could chew and is doing a reset (new leadership, layoffs, will they give up too?) Google / Waymo is plugging along. There was a lot of chatter this summer about cars in SF getting lost or confused and people getting pissed off and "coning" them as a form of protest, but despite that, Waymo reported it did more than 700,000 driver-less rides last year, in PHX and SF and LA, which feels like they are more in the "we figured it out" than the "we are still figuring it out" What will happen in 2024? Will Waymo face some sort of scandal of its own, an at fault accident or something else? And then there is Tesla, plugging away on its own "all our cars can be robotaxis" effort, version 12 with AI decision making will roll out sometime this year, but they are still many years away from no person behind the wheel, and the question remains "can they do it at all ever" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phil1111 911 #2 January 3 11 hours ago, SethInMI said: 2023 was.... "can they do it at all ever" Yes 5 years perhaps Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,384 #3 January 3 And sometime this year, Musk will make his 11th annual announcement that Tesla will release "Full Self Driving" in a matter of months. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airdvr 197 #4 January 7 My son in law is a bigwig with Aurora https://aurora.tech/ I'm not sure about the public accepting this tech. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
