Self driving cars failed 2020

I was had planned to do a long post on self-driving cars a quite long time. I was planning to do one this spring, but I might not do that, because it seems that predictions that self-driving cars would be here in 2020 were far too rosy. Five years ago, several companies including Nissan and Toyota promised self-driving cars in 2020. So it may be wise to take any new forecasts with a grain of salt. Hare is a worth to check out article of the current status of self-driving cars:

Surprise! 2020 Is Not the Year for Self-Driving Cars
https://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/self-driving/surprise-2020-is-not-the-year-for-selfdriving-cars

In March, because of the coronavirus, self-driving car companies, including Argo, Aurora, Cruise, Pony, and Waymo, suspended vehicle testing and operations that involved a human driver. Around the same time, Waymo and Ford released open data sets of information collected during autonomous-vehicle tests and challenged developers to use them to come up with faster and smarter self-driving algorithms.

It seems that the self-driving car industry still hopes to make meaningful progress on autonomous vehicles (AVs) this year, but the industry is slowed by the pandemic and facing a set of very hard problems that have gotten no easier to solve over the years.

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  1. Tomi Engdahl says:

    At twice the industry average, it seems like we should put to rest the myth that Tesla’s suite of safety features makes drivers safer.

    What would be very interesting to me is to divide out miles and accidents driven by FSD versus those by humans operating their vehicles.

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  2. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Ian King / Bloomberg:
    Qualcomm expects its automotive and IoT businesses to drive combined revenues of $22B by FY 2029, including $8B from automotive chips and $4B from PC chips

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-19/qualcomm-expects-to-make-22-billion-by-2029-from-expansion-bid

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