{"id":1679163,"date":"2022-10-08T06:53:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T10:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1679163"},"modified":"2022-10-08T06:53:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T10:53:28","slug":"100-billion-has-been-invested-in-self-driving-cars-and-its-been-a-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/100-billion-has-been-invested-in-self-driving-cars-and-its-been-a-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"$100 Billion Has Been Invested in Self-Driving Cars &#8211; And It&#8217;s Been a Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F100-billion-has-been-invested-in-self-driving-cars-and-its-been-a-bust%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1679163&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>It all sounds great until you encounter an actual robo-taxi in the wild. Which is rare: Six years after companies started offering rides in what they\u2019ve called autonomous cars and almost 20 years after the first self-driving demos, there are vanishingly few such vehicles on the road. And they tend to be confined to a handful of places in the Sun Belt, because they still can\u2019t handle weather patterns trickier than Partly Cloudy. State-of-the-art robot cars also struggle with construction, animals, traffic cones, crossing guards, and what the industry calls \u201cunprotected left turns,\u201d which most of us would call \u201cleft turns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The industry says its Derek Zoolander problem applies only to lefts that require navigating oncoming traffic. (Great.) It\u2019s devoted enormous resources to figuring out left turns, but the work continues. Earlier this year, Cruise LLC\u2014majority-owned by General Motors Co.\u2014recalled all of its self-driving vehicles after one car\u2019s inability to turn left contributed to a crash in San Francisco that injured two people. Aaron McLear, a Cruise spokesman, says the recall \u201cdoes not impact or change our current on-road operations.\u201d Cruise is planning to expand to Austin and Phoenix this year. \u201cWe\u2019ve moved the timeline to the left for what might be the first time in AV history,\u201d McLear says. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>This, it seems, is the best the field can do after investors have bet something like $100 billion, according to a McKinsey &#038; Co. report. While the industry\u2019s biggest names continue to project optimism, the emerging consensus is that the world of robo-taxis isn\u2019t just around the next unprotected left\u2014that we might have to wait decades longer, or an eternity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a scam,\u201d says George Hotz, whose company Comma.ai Inc. makes a driver-assistance system similar to Tesla Inc.\u2019s Autopilot. \u201cThese companies have squandered tens of billions of dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all sounds great until you encounter an actual robo-taxi in the wild. Which is rare: Six years after companies started offering rides in what they\u2019ve called autonomous cars and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}