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The hype, high hopes and sobering reality of the future of car travel

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-...aring/13178910

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- Users will end up paying for the inefficiencies that already exist in the industry (such as the amount of time cabs sit empty), as well as the cost of remote operators who would be needed to step in in the event of a malfunction. Then there's the cost of infrastructure ensuring roads are clear and painted so they can be recognised by sensors. — While the computing systems in cars today have between 80-100 million lines of computer code it's expected driverless cars would need at least double that. The challenge here, of course, is equipping the vehicles with enough computing capacity to be able to churn through these gigabytes and gigabytes of data that are being produced. More computing capacity means more weight. The more computers you squeeze on board these vehicles, the more fuel inefficient you actually make the vehicle.

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