True Self Driving Cars Suffer Another Huge Setback

The self-driving car was a dream deferred even before the Covid-19 outbreak brought the U.S. economy to a standstill. By early 2020, plans to launch robotaxi services had been pushed back or scaled down as excitement over driverless cars gave way to recognition of the long work and heavy expense of bringing the technology to market. Now the pandemic has forced companies to pull their cars from the road, send engineers to work from home, and look carefully at their balance sheets.

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ctsang - 4/23/2020 11:14:56 AM

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same happening in most industries

MDarringer - 4/23/2020 12:02:24 PM

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It's time to end the political bullshit and restore the Constitutional rights of people. COVID-19 simply isn't a threat credible enough to destroy the economy. However, the bright side is that it is ensuring a Trump landslide victory in November. The martini-swilling, denture-sucking bitch is destroying the Democrats and her minions are too unintelligent to see it.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 4/23/2020 8:33:49 PM

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@MD- Or each time Trump comes in front of the podium each day to spew lies and false statements about the COVID-19 situation and continues to disagree with medical and science professionals, he digs himself a even deeper hole with independent voters and Democrats voters.

His base will need to convince a lot of other people save him or he will be toast in November.

Foncool - 4/24/2020 4:15:47 PM

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From a country that elected a spineless empty suit twice. Trust us we did it too.

SanJoseDriver - 4/23/2020 4:19:31 PM

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Tesla isn't slowing down, auto stopping for traffic lights and stop signs is slowly rolling out and there was a technical demo of how they are using machine learning to create similar 3d maps to lidar in real time using just cameras.

I haven't driven much the past couple weeks, but can say the last software release made some big changes to using autopilot on city streets. It's coming this year for sure. Maybe not full on robotaxi, but going from point A to point B on Autopilot with a backup driver is going to happen.