I'm not a Musk hater but this vision of the future just doesn't seem that interesting. I'm from Switzerland, I much rather have trains and well timed buses.
Buses already exists and paying drivers isn't actually that big a problem. Society can easily pay for that, if you take into account the reduction in investment and cost you have from other road use.
Musk promise of 'less parking lots' can already be easily achieved with technology from 1960. Its not an engineering problem, its social problem.
Trains, trams, buses, bikes and walking is far cheaper and more efficient in every measurable way then fancy robotaxis even if they worked, witch they don't really.
Can you imagine the horror of a large city where most people each use an individual vehicle? That just dystopia.
An small autonomous bus has some uses but at best its a small part of a much larger transport system.
The US being so obsessed with robotaxis is just a consequence of 70 years of horrible road design and land usage and city planning.
Buses already exists and paying drivers isn't actually that big a problem. Society can easily pay for that, if you take into account the reduction in investment and cost you have from other road use.
Musk promise of 'less parking lots' can already be easily achieved with technology from 1960. Its not an engineering problem, its social problem.
Trains, trams, buses, bikes and walking is far cheaper and more efficient in every measurable way then fancy robotaxis even if they worked, witch they don't really.
Can you imagine the horror of a large city where most people each use an individual vehicle? That just dystopia.
An small autonomous bus has some uses but at best its a small part of a much larger transport system.
The US being so obsessed with robotaxis is just a consequence of 70 years of horrible road design and land usage and city planning.