[hyuuu]

one point the author seems to be missing as to why we need full self driving everywhere is in the logistics industry. We are talking about interstate driving, from point A to point B, in this case it might involve industria environments such as a truck stop, weighing, loading/unloading etc, something that requires decision making across different environments (urban, highway, dense residential etc). Tesla FSD has the real potential for this unlock, more than just a ride hailing use case of getting people from point A to point B.

[superfrank]

I don't understand why you think Waymo wouldn't be able to take the same approach.

They've already got the tech for urban and residential working in their taxi service. It would probably need some work to get it working for a semi truck, but the base technology is there. The only completely new thing would be getting it working for highway travel and it feels like they could take the same approach of starting with a few key arteries, geofencing those, only picking contracts that are in their geofenced area and scaling up from there.

I'm not an expert on this at all, but I'd be surprised if the 80/20 rule didn't apply to shipping corridors as well.

[artificialprint]

I remember Waymo had their "Via" division, seems like they been hitting brakes on that one. I think they had people driving the last mile, which makes sense. Again, freeway crashes are always gonna be the most lethal and the worst, especially if we are talking about semis.

Government should make an AV lane for trucks!