alt Hacker NewsI hope they succeed, for the sake of my mom who's legally blind and has dreamed about them for decades. but I'd be significantly more excited about self-driving if you could buy level-4 AVs that you can actually own.
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Me too but this feels like a step in a progression to being able to rent/share them.
Can I ask why you prefer that some future technology will solve her problem when actual solutions (such as access vans; public transit; etc.) already exist?
And before anyone points this out, if your local government does not offer these solutions that is a political choice of your local politicians. Plenty of local governments all over the world (even in dictatorships) are able to provide these, and changing the policy of your local government should in theory be easier then to roll out technology that does not exist.
Are cars really the best option? Could other public transit serve the same purpose?
(I was once legally blind, still not a fan of cars myself. Though I understand the appeal when externalities are out of the picture.)