I predict the industry to lose the most amount of money over the next decade to be the self-driving circle jerk. The genius technology that absolutely nobody asked for.
Seriously what is this industry going to do when they've tested all they can test, fixed all they fix, and when they are ready to finally turn it into a revenue business after decades of loss... the ENTIRE population gives it a collective "nope"?
What is your prediction based on? The population of your own friends circle giving it a collective "nope"? I myself surely long for self-driving cars.
We have seen automation technology expand in all kinds of vehicles, fighter jets, passenger planes, subway trains, sea vessels, drones... The trend will not be different for automobiles IMHO.
The technologies behind self-driving cars will have applications in other fields of AI and automation too, just saying.
The fact that no one outside of the tech industry and tech fandom gives the smallest shit about autonomous driving.
An extremely important fact that flies over the heads of those being duped into dumping money into this bottomless pit.
Seriously, there are some people who seem to believe that once they've nailed it, and the tech is ready for the mainstream, that a switch is going to be flipped somewhere, and the public will suddenly care. They don't now. They won't then.
It's just not going to happen. It will continue to be a pathetic niche within tiny communities in the so-called progressive parts of the country, where delusion is king. Do you think one day in the next 50 years you'll be walking in to a car dealer to get your next car and the only option will be an autonomous vehicle? Simply not happening. And all of the money being spent on it is a huge mistake.
Thankfully it seems like Apple didn't get past early stages of R&D and abandoned it when they realized it would not be profitable this century.
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An extremely important fact that flies over the heads of those being duped into dumping money into this bottomless pit.
Seriously, there are some people who seem to believe that once they've nailed it, and the tech is ready for the mainstream, that a switch is going to be flipped somewhere, and the public will suddenly care. They don't now. They won't then.
It's just not going to happen. It will continue to be a pathetic niche within tiny communities in the so-called progressive parts of the country, where delusion is king. Do you think one day in the next 50 years you'll be walking in to a car dealer to get your next car and the only option will be an autonomous vehicle? Simply not happening. And all of the money being spent on it is a huge mistake.
Thankfully it seems like Apple didn't get past early stages of R&D and abandoned it when they realized it would not be profitable this century.