Thinking back to this CGP Grey video and how I believed it at the time.
And now:
US trucker shortage means everything is more expensive
The trucking industry has been short drivers for years, but the pandemic made it worse. The shortage means the price of groceries and moving costs are going up. CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich reports.
Source: CNNBusiness
The VCs have caught on by now, but back during the peak of the hype, self-driving cars were a great VC grift. A talented enough engineer would only need a year or two to build self-driving car software that works 95% of the time on clear days on highways or wide suburban roads. To any layman that sounds like you're almost there, maybe halfway if you're pessimistic, so clearly you're going to overshoot all the other attempts that have been floundering for years, so they should invest in you. But in reality, each percent of that extra 5%, each other kind of road, and each other kind of weather condition is, very optimistically, a five-year project for a large fully funded team of experts.
But why does the autonomous car grift live on while the robot squeezed juice grift dies before liftoff?
Autonomous vehicles also appeal to the capitalist fantasy of sacking a bunch of workers and replacing them with machines. The number of people who fantasize about robot squeezed orange juice is just two guys who've spent way too much time on image boorus.