Uber vs. California - Robot cars not ready for roads?

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@Juan_Raigada

I don’t think it’s that far. We don’t need the technology to be 100% safe or efficient, just safer on average than human drivers, and we are not far away from that at all.

You just need one city or country to authorize them and if in one year or so of of operation accidents are statistically lower than regular vehicles, most objections will go away, including insurance costs.

They don’t have to be perfect, but they do have to work without requiring a human driver to intercede multiple times on a typical intra-city trip, and that is well beyond the current state of the art.