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Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 8, 2024

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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There's a common pattern which goes something like this:

"People overestimate how much can get done in a year, but underestimate how much can get done in a decade".

We've been making steady advances in self-driving the last 15 years and Waymo cars are already operating as taxis in Phoenix, LA, and SF (although I think they still have some sort of human element for edge cases).

Self-driving cars will continue to advance until, 15 years from now, it will be everywhere and it all sort of happened gradually. The regulatory framework will evolve over time much like it did when cars first came out.

Most legacy automakers are doomed of course.