DISRUPTION of autonomous vehicles: what might change?

[Brando]

LARRY BURNS (retired from GM and an advisor to Waymo) and Christopher Shulgan co-author a book, Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Autonomous Car - And How It Will Reshape Our World, that is both a memoir of Burnsown career and the development of the automated vehicle. An interview from AutoLine.

 

[Brando]

Another angle on DISRUPTION (please READ this short article before making comments - many interesting points)

Why Honda's Waymo Talks Failed and GM Clinched the Deal
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

I worry that US Intellectual Property [patent laws] will be a big stumbling blocks with lawyers/courts wasting untold sums of time and money. Hats off to Elon/Tesla for their attempts to avoid some of this chaos with the electrification patents.

 

[voyager]

We are still a long way from fail-safe fully autonomous. There's also already talk that driverless cars will make gridlock even worse. Anyhow, here is a relative recent update: https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/bu...t-self-driving-safety-assessments/1076691002/

 

[Brando]

2019 Feb 4 published
excellent overview (happens to be a Model 3 owner) echos of Tony Seba

autonomous, self-driving cars Here: where we are, how we'll get there and how it will change the world