Lol, I really appreciate your subtle sarcasm in this video! 😂 You were using modern public transit all along! 😏 Love seeing those nice U-Bahn trains, buses, and trams. 🙌
... I'm waiting for self driving vehicles .. Waymo is in the streets in commercial usage in a few cities in the west of USA In Munich BMW is still testing, and discussing how German laws and reguations can be fulfilled (or changed) - check some YT videos. All other car producer develope as well somewhere. I guess what German producer are doing, is not to promote a ready level-5-self-driving car but to promote a lot of assistance system for highways, in traffic jam and so on. By this it's easier to get permission to run the cars Tesla Cybervan and Cybercab were just recently announced, the cab for 2027 and I guess, add two more years for delays. For existing self driving busses check also YT. So Tesla's Cybervan is not a new idea. I guess in Germany it will take 10 more years to see a bunch of self driving vehicles. One reason is that we love to drive our (manual transmission) cars 🙂 .. "Freude am Fahren"
I was recently having dinner with a friend (engineer at BMW) and he mentioned that most Germans actually enjoy driving their cars. I will have to investigate this further.
Are self driving taxis really the future of transit? Maybe I have to often "the future ofs" experienced in my life and that makes me sceptic. What happend to "the cars take all our jobs" by those who worked in horse selling and everything around horses and then there came the whole automotive sector with the whole supply chain and horses became a hobby. What happend to "The computer will make everything faster and cheaper" and "the computer will take our jobs" and then there came blue screens, even higher workloads, costs for maintenance and updates and so on and the whole IT-Industry. What happend to the tube? So, 20-something cent per kilometer? Are costs for 24/7 maintenance and support included? What about profit margin (which definetly will rise)? What about the fewer tax paying workers that have no skill for other jobs? Is it really in the interest of a state/country to have a industry (where most companies pay less tax than the average worker) which replaces the workers in the individual transport sector? And ... why taxis? Wouldn't it make more sense to start with self driving busses, trams, subways and trains? Especially vehicles on rails should be much easier to switch to self driving. Might there be a reason why those are not self driving yet?! Just thinking out loud.
there are many metros around the world that are driverless. I think Lille had the first in the 1970s. Also the Skyline at Frankfurt Airport is unmanned and has been around for as long as I can remember.
@@stefan0325 Interesting. Never heard about it. I will look into it. Thanks But the scepticism stands (for now). Those seem to be the exception rather than the standard. And ... my main point is that I don't see (or don't like?) the idea of millions of driverless cars. Company: An accident happend and people got injured and died? Sorry, we are a company, which means no individual can be held responsible. Sure, you can sue us. But if it cost us too much money, we just will file bankrupcy (and start a new company).
Lol, I really appreciate your subtle sarcasm in this video! 😂 You were using modern public transit all along! 😏 Love seeing those nice U-Bahn trains, buses, and trams. 🙌
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Oh, we do have autonomous driving! It's called „Public Transit“! 🤭 Works all across Europe and is pretty much unknown in the US. 😁😂
if those autonomous vehicles ever get wide adoption, that will be the closest thing to public transit that most Americans ever see (or use)
@@MattSuozzo 🙂
Is it just me or did I spot a few Easter eggs in there? Anyone else notice
i dont know what you are on about 🚲
... I'm waiting for self driving vehicles .. Waymo is in the streets in commercial usage in a few cities in the west of USA
In Munich BMW is still testing, and discussing how German laws and reguations can be fulfilled (or changed) - check some YT videos.
All other car producer develope as well somewhere. I guess what German producer are doing, is not to promote a ready level-5-self-driving car but to promote a lot of assistance system for highways, in traffic jam and so on. By this it's easier to get permission to run the cars
Tesla Cybervan and Cybercab were just recently announced, the cab for 2027 and I guess, add two more years for delays.
For existing self driving busses check also YT. So Tesla's Cybervan is not a new idea.
I guess in Germany it will take 10 more years to see a bunch of self driving vehicles. One reason is that we love to drive our (manual transmission) cars 🙂 .. "Freude am Fahren"
I was recently having dinner with a friend (engineer at BMW) and he mentioned that most Germans actually enjoy driving their cars. I will have to investigate this further.
Are self driving taxis really the future of transit?
Maybe I have to often "the future ofs" experienced in my life and that makes me sceptic.
What happend to "the cars take all our jobs" by those who worked in horse selling and everything around horses and then there came the whole automotive sector with the whole supply chain and horses became a hobby.
What happend to "The computer will make everything faster and cheaper" and "the computer will take our jobs" and then there came blue screens, even higher workloads, costs for maintenance and updates and so on and the whole IT-Industry.
What happend to the tube?
So, 20-something cent per kilometer? Are costs for 24/7 maintenance and support included? What about profit margin (which definetly will rise)?
What about the fewer tax paying workers that have no skill for other jobs? Is it really in the interest of a state/country to have a industry (where most companies pay less tax than the average worker) which replaces the workers in the individual transport sector?
And ... why taxis? Wouldn't it make more sense to start with self driving busses, trams, subways and trains?
Especially vehicles on rails should be much easier to switch to self driving. Might there be a reason why those are not self driving yet?!
Just thinking out loud.
hmmm, vehicles on rails? i'm not sure that would work. never seen that before.
there are many metros around the world that are driverless. I think Lille had the first in the 1970s. Also the Skyline at Frankfurt Airport is unmanned and has been around for as long as I can remember.
@@stefan0325 Interesting. Never heard about it. I will look into it. Thanks
But the scepticism stands (for now). Those seem to be the exception rather than the standard.
And ... my main point is that I don't see (or don't like?) the idea of millions of driverless cars.
Company: An accident happend and people got injured and died? Sorry, we are a company, which means no individual can be held responsible. Sure, you can sue us. But if it cost us too much money, we just will file bankrupcy (and start a new company).
Since Musk went crazy and supported Trump and destroyed Twitter I don't like what Musk stands for anymore and now he stands for Robotaxis 😂