[ExI] self-driving cars again

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Sun Jul 15 15:52:36 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:28 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> If robot drivers have to keep to speed limits, then public transport
> becomes a bit more cost effective if you have a robot driver in the
> bus. Perhaps even electric buses for real economy. You could have
> fleets of buses continually driving around. Smaller mini buses on the
> less busy routes. Perhaps you wouldn't even need bus stops. They could
> pickup and set down anywhere on the route, selected by passengers.

My bet for the first commercial autonomous vehicles will be long haul
semi tractor trailers... perhaps Walmart trucks.

-Kelly



More information about the extropy-chat mailing list