Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) “Being at the launch of Cybercab two years ago was magic. A decade from now there” — TopicDigg

Being at the launch of Cybercab two years ago was magic. A decade from now there will be millions of these things rolling around the world. The war over autonomous vehicles is on, as everyone in San Francisco knows. But if you add up everyone who has been in ANY autonomous vehicle, whether from Waymo, any of the Chinese, the NVIDIA, any Tesla, it is only a few million people out of eight billion. When I first saw autonomous vehicles at Stanford University about 20 years ago they were so crappy I thought I'd never be alive to see them. I have the first video of the first Waymo on the freeway, and I've been blessed to have been able to watch the development of these up close (got the first ride in Mercedes' AI car, for instance). So many engineers spent so many hours developing them, many going down bad paths. Which happens with innovation. They will save millions of lives. Ford's head of safety told me that what kills people in a head-on wreck is the steering wheel. Now we can see a path to getting rid of the steering wheel totally. Congrats to Tesla and @elonmusk for getting here. Still a lot of work to go and many fights with many communities who will try to ban these to protect jobs. I'm very bullish on Cybercab and will buy one if sold to private citizens, as expected. Why? I never touch the steering wheel in my vehicles already and this will be the lowest cost vehicle with the most safety. And a great big screen and a great sound system to watch whatever I want. When I met the engineers at the launch they said they made many decisions to make it quieter inside, so we can do things like listen to music, video calls, or watch the World Cup. This vehicle is the iPhone moment of autonomous vehicles. One I've been lucky enough to survive the 20 years it took to see.