This article is marketing, framing this as "an appeal to early customers" but these things will never, ever work.
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This article is marketing, framing this as "an appeal to early customers" but these things will never, ever work.
Firstly, they're not even trying to make them work; they're only trying to make you believe it enough to get your money. This is all faked for marketing purposes.
- but even if they did, data won't solve this; that's why everyone is backing away from self-driving cars. Reality is too complex to break down to statistics.
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This article is marketing, framing this as "an appeal to early customers" but these things will never, ever work.
Firstly, they're not even trying to make them work; they're only trying to make you believe it enough to get your money. This is all faked for marketing purposes.
- but even if they did, data won't solve this; that's why everyone is backing away from self-driving cars. Reality is too complex to break down to statistics.
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Which is why their next step will be to keep the human operator, at which point they will A. pretend like this was the idea all along & B. try to obfuscate the fact that said operators will have to be slaves for your robot butler to work - people in 3rd world countries more or less literally chained inside operator farms & paid even less than they would be as an actual servant.
And just like now, the fawning tech press will be right there to help them.
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