Doordash CEO bought a Driverless Car Tech Company. Be Prepared For AI Cars
Posted Aug 23, 2019, 1:08 AM UTC
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Driverless cars are years away. This acquisition is to wow the markets before their IPO.
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Amazon is already testing Driverless semis right now. I would imagine within the next 5 years cars will be automated as well and replace all drivers
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My cousin's husband works on the systems for driverless cars. He's pretty confident the tech is not nearly as ready as some people want it to be.
There is a HUGE difference between TESTING and day to day integration with the rest of traffic.
It isn't even legal in any state (that I am aware of) to have a driverless car on the road unless you have some sort of special, hard to get license for testing and development. Other than that, you have to have a "driver".
My close friend has a Tesla Model 3, it's a cool car. It has a hissyfit if he removes his hands from the steering wheel for too long. It can only drive autonomously on highways. And constructions zones are a real bitch for it.
Don't get your hope too high.
ETA: Also, lmao @ all cars will be driverless in 5 years. You gonna buy us all new cars?
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Way too optimistic timetable. WAY. People were imagining that 5 years ago.
This is reminding me of commercial nuclear fusion, it's gonna take a while.
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Driverless cars are pretty straightforward. Merchant prepares the food, then goes outside to drop it off inside the driverless car, the driverless car then drives to the customerās address where the customer then goes to the passenger side of the car to pick it up.
She is trying to sound smart but the answers to most of her questions were pretty trivial. 8 dollars an hour? She has no idea wtf sheās talking about.
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Lol good luck with that. These merchants will barely lift a finger for us let alone walk the food out to the DoorDash car.
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This is still like 5 + years into the future, not worth worrying about...
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Amazon's driverless semis are on the road right now and it won't be too long until truckers are replaced. Plenty of company's are testing driverless cars too. I mean, we already have Tesla's that can automate highway driving
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Laughing my ass off and who's gonna deliver to that 5 story apartments
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Skip to 3:30 to hear about it.
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Ok so I saw this news and if we had to guessāļø on autonomous š and DoorDash....hereās what I think could actually happen. We basically become āfood monitorsā and ālast milersā.
I get picked up for my DD shift in a driverless š and dropped off at a restaurant to pick up customerās š„
The AI š waits for a set amount of time but then drives off without me if the food isnāt ready in time. I finally get the food and I mark picked up and a (possibly different) autonomous š picks me up with the š„ and maybe even up to 3 other dashers in the š .
Theyāre either in the middle of going to their š” , going to a restaurant to pick up, or also going to a customerās š with an order.
The š just picks up and lets off at customerās š” , restaurants and dashersā š based on the best possible route šŗ and timing ā° of orders. But Iām still going to walk my customersā order to their door as a ālast milerā
Just my thoughts on potential logistics / optimization.
Hey DD if you want to hire me for real š³ you know where to find me šāāļøš I need a meeting with Tony to tell him how I feel after being a Dasher for 6 weeks š“
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Good let that fucker find parking at the mall on a Friday night.
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