Tesla is far from the only player - they’re just the loudest, and sadly the most embarrassing. Waymo and Zoox, for example, are demonstrating its real feasibility.
To be fair, I’ve never stepped into a Waymo, but from what I’ve heard they’re sent on pre-determined paths around a delimited area. These only seem to be feasible you can either strictly control your environment or adjust for a finite number of cases, such as a delimited area, and even that isn’t working too hot for other road users.
I still don’t see the advantage versus a taxi bus.
The “delimited area” comprises entire cities, and they are not following predetermined paths, except in the sense that they only follow mapped roads. And the entire point is to share the road with human drivers.
Tesla is far from the only player - they’re just the loudest, and sadly the most embarrassing. Waymo and Zoox, for example, are demonstrating its real feasibility.
To be fair, I’ve never stepped into a Waymo, but from what I’ve heard they’re sent on pre-determined paths around a delimited area. These only seem to be feasible you can either strictly control your environment or adjust for a finite number of cases, such as a delimited area, and even that isn’t working too hot for other road users.
I still don’t see the advantage versus a taxi bus.
The “delimited area” comprises entire cities, and they are not following predetermined paths, except in the sense that they only follow mapped roads. And the entire point is to share the road with human drivers.
Taxi buses do not operate on-demand.