That was 6 years ago. I find it odd for a CEO to talk so cautiously (odd but perhaps refreshing), but I'm certainly not holding anyone accountable for what they said in an interview 6 years ago when it relates to a bleeding edge industry.
Well yes of course accountability clearly isn't a thing at play here, Musk said self driving cars were coming in two years back when I was still studying, that was ~10 years ago...
We're still not even close to anything remotely capable of being autonomous, even on sunny straight californian roads... Bring these to switzerland snowy mountain passes or serbian dirt roads lmao
> a bleeding edge industry.
The only thing that this industry is bleeding is money so far
Five cities in CA/AZ/TX, aka 90 degrees angles grid, 0 inclines, sunshine 300+ days a year, no snow, no rain, perfect visibility, &c. Musk was 100% talking about self driving cars for the average joe, not robotaxis in gentrified city centers. I also have a fully autonomous vehicles, my vacuum cleaner navigates my living room flawlessly...
And again that's exactly what waymo's ceo said, it won't work everywhere / in all conditions, and as it turns out: outside of deserts and the west coasts these conditions are far from edge cases, they're the norm in most of the world
Without even talking about edge cases like mountains, put one of these in Paris or Rome and I give it 15 minutes before it gets stuck/crashes, people underestimate how hard the last 20% will be. 100 000 cars go through that place every single day: https://youtu.be/JgWhagB4d_g?t=79
