Great--dare I say journalistic--rundown of the state-of-the-art for those of us who haven't sampled the experience. I wonder if the quality of your experience changed your back-of-the-napkin sense of timing for when broader rollout could be accomplished. For instance, how long until a Santa Fean might be more likely to pick a driverless car over an Uber?
Thank you. For Santa Fe, it's a matter of population as a distinct factor. San Francisco is a compact city with 850,000 people in a well defined place. I don't know the population and geography of Phoenix and Austin as well, but they are topographically simpler.
Bottom line: Economics will drive (pun intended) business to bigger cities first, so in New Mexico, Albuquerque (~900,000) is likely to get robotaxis before Santa Fe (~100,000)….
Great--dare I say journalistic--rundown of the state-of-the-art for those of us who haven't sampled the experience. I wonder if the quality of your experience changed your back-of-the-napkin sense of timing for when broader rollout could be accomplished. For instance, how long until a Santa Fean might be more likely to pick a driverless car over an Uber?
Thank you. For Santa Fe, it's a matter of population as a distinct factor. San Francisco is a compact city with 850,000 people in a well defined place. I don't know the population and geography of Phoenix and Austin as well, but they are topographically simpler.
Bottom line: Economics will drive (pun intended) business to bigger cities first, so in New Mexico, Albuquerque (~900,000) is likely to get robotaxis before Santa Fe (~100,000)….