Autonomous fleets will move people from point A to B - Bill Loewenthal

Electrification is the path to autonomy. And autonomy is the path to a much more of a shared car society

There will be fleets solving how we move people from point A to point B, autonomous fleets.

And we've only talked about things that roll, but there's things that float and there's things that fly. And they'll be electric, too.

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Waymo ditches the waitlist and opens up its robotaxis to everyone in San Francisco / ‘Simply download the app and ride.’ - Andrew Hawkins, The Verge 2024-Jun-25

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24184814/waymo-waitlist-robotaxi-san-francisco-app-ride

It wasn't that long ago that mobile phones were unfathomable, certainly cheap ones for the masses.

The Google Self Driving Car Project started in 2009, 15 years ago. Two years after the first iPhone. Today, you can ride one in San Francisco. Put the app on your phone, it'll drive to you. Does that seem like a long time or a short time to you?

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