Dear reader,
Many mobility companies have dropped out of the race for autonomous driving, only a few are going all in. GM subsidiary Cruise and Google sister Waymo now have in San Francisco the releaseto offer commercial taxi services without security drivers.
But after the jubilation about the permission, almost a dozen of the cruise vehicles stopped last weekend. A festival in the city had restricted the mobile connection, it was said. The next robot idea followed on Tuesday: a cruise mobile got stuck in wet concrete.
Mistakes are part of the road to breakthrough. But they shouldn’t accumulate too much.
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