alt Hacker NewsI'd be more inclined to believe that an abundance of robotaxis will use predictive algorithms to preemptively show up wherever they're likely to be needed, allowing a UX where users can hail them like traditional taxis without an app. Maybe not in four years, but maybe in a decade or two.
That feels both more credible and more desirable than the magic panopticon predicted in the quote, and doesn't really depend on any major technological leaps beyond continued maturation and scaling of Waymo/alternatives.
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daemin • today at 5:37 AM
Or you know, maybe have public transport that's available so you can easily get it to where you need to go.
Having a city's worth of automated cars driving around all the time sounds like a hellscape.
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pyrolistical • yesterday at 10:02 PM
So robo taxis are going to stalk us?
I agree with what you've written about robotaxis, and Uber/Lyft already put a ton of data analysis into ensuring they have capacity where it's needed. But I don't think apps are going anywhere anytime soon, or in decades for that matter, primarily because there are economic forces in play that make them desirable for the network owners.