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Companies from Google to General Motors have poured billions of dollars into the pursuit of what was seen as the Holy Grail of driving technology: the fully self-driving car

But recently many of the main players in the autonomous vehicle game have been scaling back or outright abandoning their lofty ambitions. Last week Ford and Volkswagen pulled the plug on their self-driving effort, Argo AI, the latest admission from a hype-fueled industry that building a good self-driving car that’s also a profitable business may not happen anytime soon.

Unusual events are individually, by definition, uncommon. But the sheer number of unusual events encountered by millions of drivers all over the world means that “unusual events” are quite common. “It’s really, really hard,” Waymo’s then-CEO John Krafcik said in 2018 of self-driving technology. “You don’t know what you don’t know until you’re really in there and trying to do things.” Industry leaders have backed off their big claims.

 

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It’s a dream come through

Looks like a complete waste of money

We are supposed to have flying cars by now. We are so far behind.

The holy shit grail: To make us completely dependent on machines/technology...

I don’t think it’s going so good so far

They had self-driving cars in 'Demolition Man'. Why don't they just use those?

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