For purely selfish reasons, my dream is to be able to ditch my TWO cars and simply press a button on an app to have a small pod come to my house and carry me off (even if slowly). I could read or do a bit of work and arrive calm and unstressed by traffic.
Do we know wich cities are most aggressively moving toward this future?
Arizona, Texas, and California lead in the US right now (though only specific cities within those states allow actual robotaxi services right now), which leads me to believe they'll probably continue to dominate the autonomous driving regulatory fringes in the country for the time being. China's moving a bit faster (though started a little slower than some US local governments) to deploy this tech in large cities, and there are a few other spots (places in Sweden, in Singapore, and in Japan) that have test zones and/or small markets for robotaxis already.
There's a chance some government will decide to really make this a thing in their jurisdiction and basically just remove all the limits and see what happens, but sans that kind of (potentially quite dangerous and disruptive) leapfrogging move, those're the locales I would bet on, in terms of seeing that imagined future sometime in the next 5-10 years.
Thanks Colin. I live in the UK where I see no sign of movement on this front. But, I'm from Dallas, so maybe the next time I go back and visit I'll arrive in a self-driving utopia!
For purely selfish reasons, my dream is to be able to ditch my TWO cars and simply press a button on an app to have a small pod come to my house and carry me off (even if slowly). I could read or do a bit of work and arrive calm and unstressed by traffic.
Do we know wich cities are most aggressively moving toward this future?
Arizona, Texas, and California lead in the US right now (though only specific cities within those states allow actual robotaxi services right now), which leads me to believe they'll probably continue to dominate the autonomous driving regulatory fringes in the country for the time being. China's moving a bit faster (though started a little slower than some US local governments) to deploy this tech in large cities, and there are a few other spots (places in Sweden, in Singapore, and in Japan) that have test zones and/or small markets for robotaxis already.
There's a chance some government will decide to really make this a thing in their jurisdiction and basically just remove all the limits and see what happens, but sans that kind of (potentially quite dangerous and disruptive) leapfrogging move, those're the locales I would bet on, in terms of seeing that imagined future sometime in the next 5-10 years.
Thanks Colin. I live in the UK where I see no sign of movement on this front. But, I'm from Dallas, so maybe the next time I go back and visit I'll arrive in a self-driving utopia!