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<blockquote data-quote="HDRKID" data-source="post: 194880" data-attributes="member: 43"><p>TAKE FROM <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/14/21063487/self-driving-cars-autonomous-vehicles-waymo-cruise-uber" target="_blank">It’s 2020. Where are our self-driving cars?</a> </p><p></p><p><em>When it comes to self-driving cars, the future was supposed to be now.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>In 2020, you’ll be a “permanent backseat driver,” the Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/13/self-driving-cars-bmw-google-2020-driving" target="_blank">predicted in 2015</a>. “10 million self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020,” blared a Business Insider headline from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/report-10-million-self-driving-cars-will-be-on-the-road-by-2020-2015-5-6" target="_blank">2016</a>. Those declarations were accompanied by announcements from <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/gms-cruise-rolls-back-target-self-driving-cars/" target="_blank">General Motors</a>, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/the-most-important-self-driving-car-announcement-yet/556712/" target="_blank">Google’s Waymo</a>, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/toyota-aims-to-make-self-driving-cars-by-2020-1444136396" target="_blank">Toyota</a>, and <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=66960X1516588&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.autotrader.com%2Fcar-shopping%2Fself-driving-cars-honda-sets-2020-as-target-for-highly-automated-freeway-driving-266836&referrer=vox.com&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Ffuture-perfect%2F2020%2F2%2F14%2F21063487%2Fself-driving-cars-autonomous-vehicles-waymo-cruise-uber" target="_blank">Honda</a> that they’d be making self-driving cars by 2020. Elon Musk forecast that <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/22/18510828/tesla-elon-musk-autonomy-day-investor-comments-self-driving-cars-predictions" target="_blank">Tesla would do it by 2018</a> — and then, when that failed, by 2020.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>But the year is here — and the self-driving cars aren’t.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>---</em></p><p></p><p>Self-driving cars were supposed to be common now. Futurists will no doubt blame corona virus. That is what I suppose. That said, we do wonder why we do not have a future filled with self-driving electric cars. OK, so last week I saw $ 1.37-gallon gas. Hey, that could be one reason.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HDRKID, post: 194880, member: 43"] TAKE FROM [URL="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/14/21063487/self-driving-cars-autonomous-vehicles-waymo-cruise-uber"]It’s 2020. Where are our self-driving cars?[/URL] [I]When it comes to self-driving cars, the future was supposed to be now. In[B] [/B]2020, you’ll be a “permanent backseat driver,” the Guardian [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/13/self-driving-cars-bmw-google-2020-driving']predicted[B] [/B]in 2015[/URL]. “10 million self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020,” blared a Business Insider headline from [URL='https://www.businessinsider.com/report-10-million-self-driving-cars-will-be-on-the-road-by-2020-2015-5-6']2016[/URL]. Those declarations were accompanied by announcements from [URL='https://www.wired.com/story/gms-cruise-rolls-back-target-self-driving-cars/']General Motors[/URL], [URL='https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/the-most-important-self-driving-car-announcement-yet/556712/']Google’s Waymo[/URL], [URL='https://www.wsj.com/articles/toyota-aims-to-make-self-driving-cars-by-2020-1444136396']Toyota[/URL], and [URL='https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=66960X1516588&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.autotrader.com%2Fcar-shopping%2Fself-driving-cars-honda-sets-2020-as-target-for-highly-automated-freeway-driving-266836&referrer=vox.com&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Ffuture-perfect%2F2020%2F2%2F14%2F21063487%2Fself-driving-cars-autonomous-vehicles-waymo-cruise-uber']Honda[/URL] that they’d be making self-driving cars by 2020. Elon Musk forecast that [URL='https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/22/18510828/tesla-elon-musk-autonomy-day-investor-comments-self-driving-cars-predictions']Tesla would do it by 2018[/URL] — and then, when that failed, by 2020. But the year is here — and the self-driving cars aren’t. ---[/I] Self-driving cars were supposed to be common now. Futurists will no doubt blame corona virus. That is what I suppose. That said, we do wonder why we do not have a future filled with self-driving electric cars. OK, so last week I saw $ 1.37-gallon gas. Hey, that could be one reason. [/QUOTE]
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