Is Autonomous Driving the up and coming technology (like mobile and internet?) or is it just a one-hit technology (like 3D TVs)? Also, what’s the future scope of developers working in this field? PS: Apologies if the question is rude or stupid. Just wanna know what the experienced folks have to say about this field.
Absolutely a real thing. It’s a phased approach though. It’s not today there isn’t anything and tomorrow it’s fully autonomous. So this will be a 15 year journey. Huge field for software engineers, data scientists and data engineers. I don’t like TVs because 3D TVs really isn’t disrupting anything - just a change in form factor. Shitty low margin business. Terrible business to be in.
Lots of memes to be had
It's definitely much more possible than 3D tvs. But it shall still take 5-10 years to become mainstream.
Yea it's definitely going to be a thing. 10 yrs min. It also doesn't make sense to have so many companies making unique solutions It's an infrastructure problem as well and the govt problem needs to step in and regulate.
Infra = roads in this case?
Why not make use of existing systems? They will have to co-exist with human drivers
Just look at how much time people waste on daily commuting, endless interstate driving etc. I’d say it’ll be HUGE.
Side question, how much of our rail system is fully automated? Even BART still needs a human operator.
It’s cost effective to have one human supervisor for 200 passengers it seems like. For liability or operational purposes. Not sure, I read that in Japan I think it’s automatic but not more efficient.
BART is a joke. The worst public transportation across all developed countries.
Human operators are a convenient scapegoat when parts fail on complex machines. Outside of being a pissing contest for companies heavily invested in autonomous vehicles, I don’t see the shift of liability toward internal development teams being an attractive option for any company with a stock price.
This. I can’t wait for the legal parts to be worked out, and really want to read up on this. Regulation will absolutely make or break this industry.
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Not an autonomous vehicle expert, but it’s one of these great problems where the market fit is immediate/obvious, and it’s nearly all technical (well, and regulatory).
Whether the technical part can be solved in a reasonable time is anyone’s guess. Currently over-optimistic, but I’m guessing 5-8 years to a usable/trustworthy product.
The safer and most autonomous systems require expensive computing power, but that's just a matter of time until it gets cheap enough to put on luxury cars. Once we see Volvos and Teslas driving by themselves reliably, the market will explode. Software is not a problem, unless you want some crazy (and dangerous) optimization for cheap hardware, like that Uber thing.