Self driving cars? Apple taxis service? Apple family self driving vans? Owning the entire experience of taking people from one place to another?
They simply thought it was too hard and went back to what was already working.
Self driving cars? Apple taxis service? Apple family self driving vans? Owning the entire experience of taking people from one place to another?
They simply thought it was too hard and went back to what was already working.
> Apple taxis service? Apple family self driving vans?
Taxis and buses are pretty old tech at this point. (Not just from an Uber/Lyft perspective either; taxis and coaches predate cars themselves, because the ideas/"tech" worked just fine with actual horse power.)
As for self-driving cars, so much of the efforts today remind me of that old Ford quote to the tune of "If I asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse". It doesn't feel like an innovative step change in transportation, it feels like a slightly better car (when it works). It doesn't fix any of the current big problems of cars and over-relying on cars as our primary transportation form factor.
So how would you solve moving person from A to B?
Personally, right now I'd invest in high speed trains. It's not "disruptive new tech", it's proven tech, so not exciting to a lot of the HN crowd hoping for AI miracles for self-driving. But it could be quite disruptive to car infrastructure and airlines given the right funding and development plan.